Treatment of sympathetic cervical spondylosis / 中国矫形外科杂志

ABSTRACT

According to the recent years’ review of international and domestic relating journals and collections, the conception, mechanism, and treatment of sympathetic cervical spondylosis are summarized.All authors have agreed that posterior cervical nerve syndrome proposed by Barre-Lieou and addressed in this paper, whose mechanism mainly is cervical vertebral degeneration stimulus, or oppression upon sympathetic nervous fiber, or spasm of vertebral artery, is generally treated by non-operative methods and cautious operative methods.The main cause of sympathetic cervical spondylosis is cervical vertebral instability, which stimulates sympathetic nervous fiber to make vertebral artery to convulse. And its treatment is mainly conservative treatment and supplementary operation. But it is usually subject to reoccurrence. Operative methods include cervical disk excision, cervical inter-body fusion and bone grafting and inner fixation, instable factor elimination. But eligible condition is relatively short.