Anterior cervical interbody fusion with PEEK cages

ABSTRACT

Thirty seven patients with degenerative cervical disc disease were treated surgically by anterior discectomy and fusion using PEEK cages packed with autogenous bone graft. The study included nineteen males and eighteen females and the mean age at surgery was 41y. All patients improved neurologically postoperatively. The complications were acceptable. Patients were placed in a Philadelphia Collar for 3 months and then gradually weaned of it. All patients regained a stable cervical spine