With cervical fusion surgery, the surgeon removes the damaged disc and places a bone graft (which is taken either from the patient's hip or from a cadaver) in the space between the vertebrae.

Cervical fusion surgery is fairly common. Doctors perform over 130,000 ACDFs annually in the United States, and single-level ACDFs have a low risk of complications.

Cervical fusion: This is where a ... A 2018 study reports that between 2006 and 2013, surgeons performed 1,059,403 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion procedures. What are the signs you need ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted investigational device exemption (IDE) approval for Dymicron to ...

Spinal fusion is surgery to join two or more vertebrae into one single structure. The goal is to stop movement between the two bones and prevent back pain.Once they’re fused, they no longer move ...

In the conventional surgery group, there were 5 cases of interbody fusion, 3 cases of suspicious fusion, and 2 cases of no fusion at the last follow-up, with a fusion rate of 80%. In the ...

Chihtong "Lily" Lee never set out to reinvent surgical tools, but her curiosity, precision and creativity led her to do just ...