Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Cervical disc replacement is a safe option across all obesity levels compared to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, according to a study in ... there were higher 90-day emergency room visits and ...

The study, titled Biomechanical Evaluation of Cervical Interbody Fusion Cages for Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion With Variations in Morphology, was conducted by researchers at SRM ...

The insertion of hardware (plates, cages ... Surgical treatment of single level cervical radiculopathy: A comparison of anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) versus cervical disk ...

Patients have two options: Artificial cervical disc replacement Cervical fusion In 2007, the FDA approved the first artificial disc, the Prestige Cervical disc, which looks and moves much like the ...

Two vertebrae are joined together using metal hardware. The gelatinous disc between the vertebrae ... the next year Laiatu Latu who played two years in college after a cervical fusion and became the ...

Consider this a public cervix announcement. The American Cancer Society made a dire prediction — nearly 13,400 cases of invasive cervical cancer will be diagnosed this year and about 4,300 women ...

Dr. Tannous was the first in the country to perform the MySpine cervical 3D printed fusion. “The beauty of that is that in the operating room, you have a 3D mold of the patient's spine ...

orthopedic spine surgeon at MedStar Washington Hospital Center Dr. Tannous was the first in the country to perform the MySpine Cervical 3D printed fusion. “This is what a 3D printed guide looks ...

WASHINGTON, DC (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Back pain — it’s one of the most common medical problems worldwide. The pain can be debilitating and more than one in four people in the United States ...

I was able to place the implant at an adjacent level to a previous multi-level cervical fusion without having to remove any hardware from the original construct. “The integrated plate provides a more ...