If you’ve ever stepped back after a long cervical deformity case, admired your rods, tightened that final set screw, and thought, “That looks perfect,” this study has a question for you: Is it really?
In this multicenter prospective analysis from the powerhouse minds of the International Spine Study Group (ISSG), a group of researchers take aim at one of the most frustrating realities in cervical deformity surgery: the patient whose postoperative films quietly drift into failure territory despite your best intraoperative intentions.
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