Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report

Ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament (OALL) in the cervical spine is a common entity but rarely causes dysphagia, dyspnea, and dysphonia. We report an OALL case which causes such symptoms. A 47-year-old female patient had a complaint of progressive difficulty swallowing for 2 months. A...

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Autores principales: Tran, Duc Duy Tri, Nguyen, Quoc Bao, Truong, Van Tri, Truong, Thai Duong, Do, Quoc Vinh, Vo, Duc Phong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9665975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36398185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1757214
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author Tran, Duc Duy Tri
Nguyen, Quoc Bao
Truong, Van Tri
Truong, Thai Duong
Do, Quoc Vinh
Vo, Duc Phong
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Nguyen, Quoc Bao
Truong, Van Tri
Truong, Thai Duong
Do, Quoc Vinh
Vo, Duc Phong
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description Ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament (OALL) in the cervical spine is a common entity but rarely causes dysphagia, dyspnea, and dysphonia. We report an OALL case which causes such symptoms. A 47-year-old female patient had a complaint of progressive difficulty swallowing for 2 months. A cervical X-ray and computerized tomography scan were taken afterward, which showed OALL at the C3–7 level. She then had esophageal endoscopy to rule out other dysphagia-related disorders. The patient underwent anterior osteotomy via anterior cervical approach with significant relief of dysphagia postoperatively. Surgical management in symptomatic OALL improves dysphagia and prevents its secondary complications.
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spelling pubmed-96659752022-11-16 Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report Tran, Duc Duy Tri Nguyen, Quoc Bao Truong, Van Tri Truong, Thai Duong Do, Quoc Vinh Vo, Duc Phong Asian J Neurosurg Ossification of the anterior longitudinal ligament (OALL) in the cervical spine is a common entity but rarely causes dysphagia, dyspnea, and dysphonia. We report an OALL case which causes such symptoms. A 47-year-old female patient had a complaint of progressive difficulty swallowing for 2 months. A cervical X-ray and computerized tomography scan were taken afterward, which showed OALL at the C3–7 level. She then had esophageal endoscopy to rule out other dysphagia-related disorders. The patient underwent anterior osteotomy via anterior cervical approach with significant relief of dysphagia postoperatively. Surgical management in symptomatic OALL improves dysphagia and prevents its secondary complications. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022-10-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9665975/ /pubmed/36398185 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1757214 Text en Asian Congress of Neurological Surgeons. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nguyen, Quoc Bao
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Truong, Thai Duong
Do, Quoc Vinh
Vo, Duc Phong
Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report
title Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report
title_full Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report
title_fullStr Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report
title_short Surgical Intervention of Dysphagia Caused by Ossification of Anterior Longitudinal Ligament: A Case Report
title_sort surgical intervention of dysphagia caused by ossification of anterior longitudinal ligament: a case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9665975/
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