Kiehyun Daniel Riew

Cost-Effectiveness of Anterior and Posterior Surgical Approaches for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: An Economic Evaluation of a Randomized Clinical Trial

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Surgery for cervical spondylotic myelopathy improves quality of life but remains expensive. We conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of patients treated with anterior cervical diskectomy/fusion (ACDF), posterior cervical decompression/fusion (PCDF), a...

The association between preoperative cervical degeneration in adult patients with spinal deformity and poor postoperative cervical sagittal alignment after thoracolumbar deformity correction

OBJECTIVE Thoracolumbar (TL) deformity correction in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been shown to promote favorable compensatory cervical alignment changes, often restoring cervical lordosis. However, the influence of cervical degeneration on postoperative cervical alignment...