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 ...

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 ...

Posterior cervical spine surgery and fusion involve operating on the back of the neck to treat conditions of the back and neck bones, discs, and nerves, to relieve pressure or alleviate pain.

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