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. 2020 Mar 20;11(4):488–499. doi: 10.1177/2192568220912706

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Figure 5. — Five patients underwent concurrent cervical fusion surgery along with osteophyte resection. Lateral preoperative (A) and 2-year postoperative (B) X-rays for patient 3 who underwent C3-7 osteophyte resection and posterior decompression and fusion for concurrent myelopathy. Preoperative (C) and 5-year postoperative (D) lateral X-rays of patient 10 who underwent C3-4 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for critical cervical stenosis at the time of osteophyte removal. Preoperative (E) and 2-year postoperative (F) X-rays of patient 12, who underwent prophylactic C4-5 ACDF to help prevent recurrent osteophyte regrowth. Lateral preoperative (G) and 5-years postoperative (H) X-rays of patient 17 who underwent C5 corpectomy with C2-6 anterior cervical fusion for cervical stenosis from OPLL along with osteophyte removal of dysphagia and sleep apnea. Preoperative (I) and postoperative (J) X-rays of patient 4 who underwent C5-6 ACDF for C6 radiculopathy along with C2-T1 cheilectomy and cricopharyngeal myotomy for dysphagia. The patient developed a postoperative infection with osteomyelitis, requiring a 2-stage operation with anterior debridement, with partial C5 and C6 corpectomy, revision C5-6 ACDF, and posterior C5-T1 spinal fusion, which showed good alignment 4 years postoperatively (K).