Anterior Cervical Corpectomy and Fusion

Indications

• Correction of cervical kyphotic deformity to restore lordotic alignment.

• Decompression of the cervical spinal cord in degenerative spondylotic myelopathy.

• Excision of ossified posterior longitudinal ligament (PLL) that often bridges past disk spaces and cannot be adequately removed with diskectomies alone.

• Treatment of osteomyelitis that fails nonoperative management.

• Resection and stabilization of vertebral body tumor.

• Management of traumatic fractures of the subaxial spine, such as vertebral body burst fracture or as part of circumferential stabilization with fracture dislocations.

• Facilitation of fusion in cases with multiple contiguous levels of cervical disk herniation—a mixture of diskectomies and a corpectomy can facilitate fusion by decreasing the total number of end plates through which fusion must occur.