Spinal cord herniation after multilevel anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion for ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine.
The authors report the case of a 52-year-old man who had undergone resection of an ossified posterior longitudinal ligament via the anterior approach. The patient experienced postoperative neurological deterioration that may have been caused by a massive cord herniation associated with a dural defect at the corpectomy site. Spinal cord herniation may develop as a complication of anterior cervical decompression. Surgeons should be alert to this condition when planning to treat cervical ossification of the ossified posterior longitudinal ligament via the anterior approach.
Min
Jun-Hong
JH
Department of Neurosurgery, Seoul Wooridul Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. apuzo@naver.com
Jung
Byung-Joo
BJ
Jang
Jee-Soo
JS
Kim
Seok-Kang
SK
Jung
Dae-Jin
DJ
Lee
Sang-Ho
SH