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Cement Augmentation of the Cervical Spine - a Technique Enhancing Stability of Anterior Cervical Plating

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11120%2F17%3A43916170" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11120/17:43916170 - isvavai.cz</a>

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  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Cement Augmentation of the Cervical Spine - a Technique Enhancing Stability of Anterior Cervical Plating

  • Original language description

    PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The aim of this study is to describe a new technique for cement augmentation of primary anterior cervical screw fixation in the sub-axial cervical spine.. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seven patients underwent anterior cervical spine surgery for trauma (two) or tumor infiltration (five) between 2008 and 2015. The tumor cases underwent corpectomy and anterior plating, with the trauma cases undergoing anterior cervical decompression and fusion using iliac crest bone graft. All surgeries were performed through the standard anterior approach. 0.2-0.25 ml of Kyphon cement were introduced into the screw holes before the screws were locked into the plate of the anterior construct. Karnofsky Index, Spinal Instability Neoplastic score (SINS) were calculated and radiographic follow-up performed. RESULTS Median follow-up was 7 months (range 7 weeks-39 months). There were no complications from cement leakage or construct failure during the follow-up period. There were no wound infections or approach-related complications. We did not have to re-operate on any patient, cervical spine remained stable until the end of follow up. DISCUSSION Until now a limited number of papers on cement augmentation of cervical spine mainly dealt with revision surgeries, when cement was used as rescue technique to re-establish stability of previous fixation or cement augmentation was performed in form of vertebroplasty following plate fixation. Our technique intends to prevent revision surgeries and to anchor all screws in holes which are evenly filled with bone cement. CONCLUSIONS This technique of cement augmentation is a useful adjunct in those few patients where a secondary posterior surgery would be high-risk due to the general health of the patient, or when life expectancy is limited. We have shown that anterior alone reconstruction of the cervical spine with cement augmentation of screws did provide sufficient and sufficiently long stability of the cervical spine which prevented catastrophic collapse and quadriplegia in patients in poor general condition.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    30211 - Orthopaedics

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Acta Chirurgiae Orthopaedicae et Traumatologiae Čechoslovaca

  • ISSN

    0001-5415

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    84

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    6

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    5

  • Pages from-to

    448-452

  • UT code for WoS article

    000419928400007

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85042156966