Lee Sunny King Shun, Lee Gabriel Yin Foo, Wong George Tse Hwai
Department of Neurosurgery, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Ave., Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.
J Clin Neurosci. 2004 May;11(4):424-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2003.03.007.
While mild swallowing difficulties are commonly reported transiently following anterior cervical surgery, marked dysphagia is unusual. The authors report a patient who experienced severe and prolonged dysphagia following elective cervical corpectomies with iliac grafting and anterior plate fusion for multilevel cervical canal stenosis. The literature is reviewed and discussed.