Traumatic cervical fusion hardware displacement presenting with dysphagia and dysphonia. Am J Emerg Med 2019 Apr;37(4):795.e5-795.e8
Date
01/22/2019Pubmed ID
30661872DOI
10.1016/j.ajem.2019.01.009Scopus ID
2-s2.0-85060017698 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)Abstract
Surgery for degenerative cervical myelopathy has been increasing in incidence. Almost 20% of patients have complications related to their surgery, although hardware extrusion is rare and generally reported in the first post-operative month. We report the case of a woman with new dysphagia and hoarseness secondary to traumatic screw dislodgement into her pre-vertebral space 5 months after cervical discectomy.
Author List
Peterson V, Jeanmonod RAuthor
Valerian M. Peterson MD Assistant Professor in the Emergency Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
Bone ScrewsCervical Vertebrae
Deglutition Disorders
Diskectomy
Dysphonia
Female
Foreign-Body Migration
Hoarseness
Humans
Middle Aged
Postoperative Complications
Radiography
Spinal Cord Diseases
Spinal Fusion