The exam showed anterior osteophytosis involving the lower segment of the cervical spine (figure 1 ... He later underwent surgical correction with resection of the osteophytes. Since then he remains ...

This condition is particularly concerning in older adults, where the presence of anterior cervical osteophytes—bony growths that can develop in the cervical spine—can compress the esophagus ...

Large bridging anterior osteophytes of the cervical spine usually result from diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis, and the possible explanations for dysphagia include compression of the esophagus ...

Cervical spine; Dysphagia; Ostheophyte Apresentação de caso de ... with the consequent neurological manifestations (neuropathy or myelopathy) - although anterior osteophytes that are usually ...

According to our study, anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF ... and a progressive degenerative process of the cervical spine that results in loss of disc height and formation of osteophytes.

When vertebral compression results from osteophytes, it can be easily relieved by a minor modification of the usual anterior cervical fusion technique. This method has proved to be quite efficacious ...

Reassuringly, the computed tomography scan revealed prominent thoracic vertebral osteophytes (figs 2 and 3). Cervical osteophytes have been ... that multiple thoracic osteophytes can resemble an ...

She was treated with a C3‐4 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion ... More common causes like cervical spine trauma, neoplastic growths, and osteophytes may present with a larger constellation of ...