Ali Mahad Musallam Al-Mashani¹, Santosh Lad¹, Neeraj Salhotra¹, Azmat Ali¹, Rashid M Khan^2,, Naresh Kaul²

Cervical corpectomy/discectomy is a well-recognized treatment option for multilevel anterior compression of the cervical spinal cord. We undertook a retrospective study of 47 patients treated with anterior cervical discectomy/corpectomy fusion for multi-level cervical spondylosis. Titanium mesh was placed in all patients with (Anterior cervical plate group: n= 25) or without anterior cervical plate (Non-anterior cervical plate group: n= 22)). The study objective was to compare the role of anterior cervical plate on clinical outcome, fusion rates, and complications if any after anterior cervical discectomy/corpectomy. At an average follow up time of 7 months after the surgery, we did not observe any significant difference in clinical outcome as per Odom’s score or bony fusion between the two groups (p>0.05). The bony fusion rate was 59.1% and 68.0% with and without ACP respectively. The finding of this study suggests that presence of anterior cervical plate does not contribute to better Odom’s score or bony fusion.

cervical corpectomy, titanium mesh cage, anterior cervical plate, fusion