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Cervical Spine Surgery: Standard and Advanced Techniques pp 361–365Cite as

Anterior Reconstruction with Microvascular Grafts

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The purpose of this chapter is to describe the cervical approach from C2 to T1 and the surgical technique to perform a safe corporectomy and fusion.

It includes details from patient positioning to surgical tips and pitfalls for every step.

Indications include degenerative pathologies such as cervical myelopathy, cervical radiculopathy, and cervical herniated disc and also specific types of cervical trauma, tumor, and infection. This technique is safe and allows various types of corporectomy, from partial to multilevel corporectomy.

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  1. Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery and Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University Hospital and Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

    Tianyi Liu & Andres Rodriguez-Lorenzo

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Correspondence to Andres Rodriguez-Lorenzo .

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Heiko Koller

  2. Department of Orthopaedics, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Yohan Robinson

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Liu, T., Rodriguez-Lorenzo, A. (2019). Anterior Reconstruction with Microvascular Grafts. In: Koller, H., Robinson, Y. (eds) Cervical Spine Surgery: Standard and Advanced Techniques. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93432-7_55

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