title: Cervical locked facet: operative management.
abstract: Cervical locked facet represent 5.6% of cervical lesion. If an identity of views is present in the use of tractions, we can't say as for the setting fixation techniques. Our cases histories (13 cases) and the experience of other authors incline us to support a precocious surgical treatment characterized by a posterior approach and then anterior in the not reduced cases and a single anterior approach in the reduced cases in anesthesia. The good alignment and the attain stability with the double access, but still more the convinction that the lesions of intervertebral disk and ligamentous tissues (as demonstration at the RMN) is always to remove, support us in the undertaken therapeutic attitude.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurosurgery, S. Pertini Hospital, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Agrillo
authors.forename: P V
authors.initials: PV
authors.lastname: Nardi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agrillo
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chiappetta
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009420:Nervous System / Q000503:physiopathology; D009984:Orthopedic Fixation Devices; D011184:Postoperative Period; D013124:Spinal Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed