Management of two patients with dropped head syndrome utilizing anterior-posterior cervical surgery

BACKGROUND: Two elderly patients with dropped head syndromes (DHS) were successfully treated with circumferential cervical surgery. CASE DESCRIPTION: The two patients, respectively, 72 and 53 years of age, both underwent two-staged surgical procedures. The first surgery included the posterior placem...

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Autores principales: Takayama, Motohiro, Maki, Yoshinori
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Scientific Scholar 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242422
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_1228_2021
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description BACKGROUND: Two elderly patients with dropped head syndromes (DHS) were successfully treated with circumferential cervical surgery. CASE DESCRIPTION: The two patients, respectively, 72 and 53 years of age, both underwent two-staged surgical procedures. The first surgery included the posterior placement of bilateral pedicle screws with multilevel facetectomies, followed by multilevel anterior cervical discectomy/fusion and posterior rod fixation. CONCLUSION: Circumferential decompression/fusion successfully addressed chin on chest deformity in two older patients.
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spelling pubmed-88882862022-03-02 Management of two patients with dropped head syndrome utilizing anterior-posterior cervical surgery Takayama, Motohiro Maki, Yoshinori Surg Neurol Int Case Report BACKGROUND: Two elderly patients with dropped head syndromes (DHS) were successfully treated with circumferential cervical surgery. CASE DESCRIPTION: The two patients, respectively, 72 and 53 years of age, both underwent two-staged surgical procedures. The first surgery included the posterior placement of bilateral pedicle screws with multilevel facetectomies, followed by multilevel anterior cervical discectomy/fusion and posterior rod fixation. CONCLUSION: Circumferential decompression/fusion successfully addressed chin on chest deformity in two older patients. Scientific Scholar 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8888286/ /pubmed/35242422 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_1228_2021 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Surgical Neurology International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35242422
http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_1228_2021
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