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Fracture of anterior cervical plate implant--report of two cases
- Source :
- Acta neurochirurgica. 147(6)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Anterior cervical plate is a convenient and popular implant employed after corpectomy and bone grafting for traumatic or degenerative cervical spine disease. Although short-segment anterior cervical surgery may adequately be managed with anterior plate fixation alone, multilevel anterior cervical constructs exhibit a relatively high complication rate warranting a simultaneous posterior fusion. We report two patients undergoing two-level anterior corpectomy/fusion with a fixed anterior plate alone and exhibiting plate fracture in conjunction with pseudoarthrosis. The instrument failure was mainly attributed to pseudoarthrosis. However, improper contouring of the plate causing microstructural damage might create a weak point and contributed to this unusual hardware failure.
- Subjects :
- Reoperation
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Bone grafting
Fixation (surgical)
Bone plate
medicine
Humans
Corpectomy
Diskectomy
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Interventional radiology
Middle Aged
Surgery
Prosthesis Failure
Pseudarthrosis
Spinal Fusion
Spinal fusion
Cervical Vertebrae
Female
Spinal Diseases
Neurology (clinical)
Implant
business
Bone Plates
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00016268
- Volume :
- 147
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Acta neurochirurgica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a7648c81286deedc5fe0dabd96e7264