Clinical Outcome After Anterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion and Cervical Total Disc Replacement

NCT02498028 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 80

Last updated 2015-07-15

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Summary

The aim of this study is to examine the clinical outcome after anterior cervical decompression and fusion, and cervical disc prostheses in general. Additionally these two surgical methods for degenerative diseases of the cercival spine are analyzed comparatively in order to see whether one procedure should be preferred.

Conditions

  • Cervical Disc Disorders

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Cervical Fusion

Cervical Fusion is performed with a titanium cage (Company Peter Brehm, Weisendorf, Germany) and a plating system (Company Aesculap, ABC plating system, Tuttlingen, Germany)

PROCEDURE

Cervical disc Prostheses

The total disc replacement is performed with eiter a Freedom® Cervical Disc, AxioMed Spine Corporation, Garfield Heights, Ohio, USA or Active® C, Company, Aesculap, Tuttlingen, Germany

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Bonn

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Yorck Rommelspacher, Dr. med · University Hospital, Bonn

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-01-31
Primary Completion
2015-06-30
Completion
2015-08-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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