title: Prolonged and severe dysphagia following anterior cervical surgery.
abstract: While mild swallowing difficulties are commonly reported transiently following anterior cervical surgery, marked dysphagia is unusual. The authors report a patient who experienced severe and prolonged dysphagia following elective cervical corpectomies with iliac grafting and anterior plate fusion for multilevel cervical canal stenosis. The literature is reviewed and discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Ave., Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
authors.forename: Sunny King Shun
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Gabriel Yin Foo
authors.initials: GY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: George Tse Hwai
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D003680:Deglutition Disorders / Q000601:surgery*; D017586:Diskectomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods