Tag Mark D. Corriveau

Combined Ventral-Dorsal Surgery

Summary of Key Points Cervical spine trauma, malignancy, ankylosing spondylitis, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, kyphotic deformity, and cervical spondylotic myelopathy are all pathologies for which a combined surgical approach may be biomechanically advantageous when both ventral and dorsal elements are…