Adjacent segment level disease in Klippel-Feil syndrome patients with congenital cervical fusion in the setting of anterolisthesis: Should management be altered in the presence of anterolisthesis?

• Main Authors: Fernando Alonso (Author), Joe Iwanaga (Author), Christian Fisahn (Author), Koichi Watanabe (Author), Elias Rizk (Author), Joshua Chern (Author), Rod J. Oskouian (Author), R. Shane Tubbs (Author), W. Jerry Oakes (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: The goal of our study was to determine the incidence of adjacent segment level pathology preoperatively in patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) and compare it to the incidence in patients who have undergone anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. Secondarily, we hypothesized that pa...