Prolonged and severe dysphagia following anterior cervical surgery.
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.
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Sunny King Shun
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Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Ave., Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
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Gabriel Yin Foo
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Wong
George Tse Hwai
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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