You scroll through the CT. You glance at the Hounsfield units (HU). You squint. “Hmm. That bone doesn’t look great…”
Cue the internal debate: Is this anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) destined for pseudarthrosis? Subsidence? A slow, tragic loss of lordosis? Should you be thinking posterior? Combined? Biologics? Prayer?
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