Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinical and imaging characteristics of cervical spondylotic myelopathy with cervical fusion deformity.Methods From February 2004 to July 2013, 2 981 patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy were involved in this retrospective study. The patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy that combined with cervical fusion deformity were placed in the cervical fusion deformity group (n=71), and 80 patients, the hospital number mantissa were odd numbers,without cervical fusion deformity were included as control group. All patients received decompression and reconstruction by anterior approach. The distribution characteristics of cervical fusion deformity were recorded. The cervical spine activity, cervical spine curvature, the number of pathological segments and severity of adjacent segments disc degeneration, T2WI increased signal intensity were then analyzed. Preoperative and postoperative Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score and mean recovery rate were collected to evaluate the postoperative clinical effects.Results Cervical disc herniation in the most of cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients with cervical fusion deformity, occured in a total of 8 patients in the upper intervertebral space of the cervical fusion deformity, 53 patients in the lower intervertebral space, and 10 cases in the adjacent segment intervertebral space.The mean cervical spine activity in the cervical fusion deformity group (35.2°±6.5°) was significantly lower than that in the controls (47.3°±8.8°) , the difference was statistically significant(t=9.509, P<0.01), while the average cervical spine curvature showed no significant difference (t=1.901, P>0.05). The prevalence of MRI T2WI increased signal intensity was substantially higher in the cervical fusion deformity group (39.4%, 28/71) than that in control group (22.5%, 18/80), the difference was statistically significant(χ2=4.823, P<0.05). There was a significant increase in the severity of disc degeneration in the cervical fusion deformity group as compared with control individuals (Z=5.273, P<0.01), whereas the adjacent segment intervertebral space showed no significant difference (all P values>0.05). There was no significant difference in preoperative JOA score and improvement rate between the cervical fusion deformity group (64.24%±9.49%) and control group (61.78%±11.48%) (t=1.388, P>0.05).Conclusions The cervical disc herniation in cervical spondylotic myelopathy patients with cervical fusion deformity, occurs mostly in the lower intervertebral space in the imageology,and more serious degeneration than the controls. These patients have a lower spinal activity, but have no difference in the average cervical spine curvature and adjacent segment degeneration. Cervical spondylotic myelopathy with cervical fusion deformity is similar to the cervical spondylotic myelopathy in clinical manifestation while has good prognosis by appropriate operation procedure.
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Zhang Xu, Ding Wenyuan, Wang Hui, Yang Dalong, Bai Zhilong, Wang Haiying, Wei Haikun. The imaging and clinical features of cervical spondylotic myelopathy with cervical fusion deformity. Chinese Journal of Anatomy and Clinics, 2016, 21(4): 286-290.
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