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Stress exertion on adjacent segments after ventral cervical fusion

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Special investigations of the adjacent segments are performed in patients with cervical fusion operations caused by different indications:

Only a few of alteration was seen after operations caused by infectious disease, tumor or trauma. A different situation arises with degenerative lesions, where often progressive changes were seen in the adjacent segments. This phenomena may be dependent at first of the kind of lesion (degeneration) and only at second of the kind of operation.

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Es wird über Nachuntersuchungsergebnisse von Patienten berichtet, bei depen cervicale Fusionsoperationen aus verschiedenen Gründen durchgeführt waren: Dabei wurde besonderer Wert auf die Beurteilung der Nachbarsegmente gelegt, die nach der operativen Behandlung tumoröser oder infektiöser Erkrankungen Bowie nach Trauma wenig Veränderungen zeigten.

Nach den Fusionsverfahren bei degenerativen HWS-Leiden jedoch sah man häufig fortschreitende Degeneration im Nachbarsegment, ein Phänomen, das sicherlich mit einer Generalisierungstendenz der Degeneration zusammenhängt, weniger mit der im erkrankten Bereich ausgeführten speziellen Operationsmethode.

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Gruss, P., Tannenbaum, H. Stress exertion on adjacent segments after ventral cervical fusion. Arch. Orth. Traum. Surg. 101, 283–286 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00379944

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