4:04 Circumferential reconstruction of the cervical spine

Purpose of study: A significant number of adults have pain, cosmetic deformity or neurologic injury related to cervical malalignment. The majority of such cases involve sagittal plane malalignment with loss of lordosis, kyphosis or double curve (swan-neck) deformity of the subaxial spine. A smaller number of patients have coronal plane malalignment or scoliosis in the subaxial spine or various anomalies of the occipitoatlantoaxial complex. In the following, we describe 50 cases within the past 5 years in which circumferential approaches have been applied for the correction of cervical deformities.