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From: Clinical and imaging outcomes of self-locking stand-alone cages and anterior cage-with-plate in three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a retrospective comparative study

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A 53-year-old man who had experienced numbness in both hands and felt stepping on cotton in lower limbs for 1.5 years was diagnosed as cervical spondylotic myelopathy. A Preoperative cervical lateral X-ray plain radiograph showed the alignment of cervical spine was mild kyphosis. B, D, E, F Cross-sectional and sagittal T2-weighted MRI showed degenerative disc protrusion and spinal cord compression at C3–C4, C4–C5 and C5–C6, respectively. C Sagittal CT reconstruction showed that no osteophyte compression was found anterior to the spinal canal. The patient who underwent three-level ACDF with stand-alone self-locking cages. G The X-ray examination showed the alignment of cervical spine improved significantly two days postoperatively. H X-ray film which was taken six months postoperatively identified that the alignment of cervical spine was well maintained, and the positions of cages were good. I At twelve-month follow-up, the positions of cages were still remained, whereas the lordosis of cervical spine is reduced

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