DOI: 10.1097/01.CNE.0000277314.69303.47

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Issn Print: 0163-2108

Publication Date: 2007/06/30


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Spinal Artificial Disc Replacement: Cervical Arthroplasty

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1. Total disc arthroplasty accounts for approximately 50% of all cervical spine procedures performed in Europe.
True or False?
2. Patients with axial neck pain as their only symptom are ideal candidates for cervical arthroplasty procedure.
True or False?
3. Severe facet arthrosis is considered a contraindication to implantation of an artificial disc.
True or False?
4. Improper sizing can result in loosening and dislocation of an implant or its components and breakage of the metal plate.
True or False?
5. Arthroplasty should not be offered to patients with osteoporosis.
True or False?
6. Subsidence into cancellous bone is one of the most commonly encountered complications in cervical arthroplasty.
True or False?
7. Heterotopic ossification was observed in 17.8% of patients in the Bryan Disc Study performed by the European Consortium, and trauma to the longus colli muscle is thought to be one of the factors facilitating the formation of paravertebral ossification.
True or False?
8. Newer cervical artificial disc designs require considerably simplified surgical techniques and less retraction during insertion.
True or False?
9. Preservation of the cortical endplates decreases the risk of subsidence, heterotopic ossification, and implant loosening.
True or False?
10.
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