Radiographic Measures of Spinal Alignment Are Not Predictive of the Development of C5 Palsy Following Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Surgery

AM Sinensky, ID Kaye, WT Li, SC Wagner… - International journal of …, 2021 - ijssurgery.com
Background: Postoperative C5 palsy is a common complication following cervical
decompression, occurring more frequently after posterior-based procedures. It has been …

Risk Factors and prevention of C5 palsy after anterior cervical decompression and fusion: similarity of the pathomechanism with that after a posterior approach

H Nakajima, K Honjoh, S Watanabe… - Clinical Spine …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Study Design: This was a retrospective study. Objective: The objective of this study was to
review clinical and imaging findings after anterior cervical decompression and fusion, as a …

Clinical analysis of C5 palsy after cervical decompression surgery: relationship between recovery duration and clinical and radiological factors

CH Lim, SW Roh, SC Rhim, SR Jeon - European Spine Journal, 2017 - Springer
Background Postoperative C5 palsy is a widely known complication of cervical
decompression surgery. Many studies have focused on its etiology and factors affecting it …

Delayed C5 palsy after anterior cervical decompression surgery: preoperative foraminal stenosis and postoperative spinal cord shift increase the risk of palsy

H Takase, H Murata, M Sato, T Tanaka, R Miyazaki… - World Neurosurgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Postoperative C5 palsy is a well-known complication after cervical decompression
with either a posterior or an anterior approach. Its cause has been discussed more …

Association between C5 palsy and the anterior decompression procedures, corpectomy and discectomy

S Odate, J Shikata, S Yamamura, A Okahata… - Clinical Spine …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Study Design: This is a retrospective study. Objective: The aim was to evaluate the influence
of various decompression procedures on the incidence of C5 palsy (C5P). Summary of …

The association between preoperative spinal cord rotation and postoperative C5 nerve palsy

MS Eskander, SM Balsis, C Balinger, CM Howard… - JBJS, 2012 - journals.lww.com
Background: C5 nerve palsy is a known complication of cervical spine surgery. The
development and etiology of this complication are not completely understood. The purpose …

Predicting postoperative C5 palsy using preoperative spinal cord rotation

AJ Chugh, JJ Gebhart, JD Eubanks - Orthopedics, 2015 - journals.healio.com
The development of C5 nerve palsy after cervical decompression surgery has been well
documented. The goal of this study was to determine whether preoperative spinal cord …

Extremely wide and asymmetric anterior decompression causes postoperative C5 palsy: an analysis of 32 patients with postoperative C5 palsy after anterior cervical …

S Odate, J Shikata, S Yamamura, T Soeda - Spine, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Single-center retrospective study. Objective. We examined whether extremely
wide and asymmetric anterior decompression causes postoperative C5 palsy. Summary of …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of correlative risk factors for C5 palsy after anterior cervical decompression and fusion

H Wang, X Zhang, B Lv, W Ding, Y Shen… - … Journal of Clinical …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: It has been reported that C5 palsy is a potential complication of both anterior
and posterior cervical spine surgery, although several mechanisms of C5 palsy following …

Spinal cord float back is not an independent predictor of postoperative C5 palsy in patients undergoing posterior cervical decompression

Z Pennington, D Lubelski, EM Westbroek, E Cottrill… - The Spine Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND Of the more than 30,000 posterior cervical spine fusions performed
annually, 7%–12% will be complicated by postoperative C5 palsy, a condition characterized …