Bartels Ronald H M A, Goffin Jan
1Department of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and.
2Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Leuven, Belgium.
J Neurosurg Spine. 2018 Apr;28(4):395-400. doi: 10.3171/2017.7.SPINE17182. Epub 2018 Jan 12.
Anterior cervical discectomy with fusion (ACDF) is a very well-known and often-performed procedure in the practice of spine surgeons. The earliest descriptions of the technique have always been attributed to Cloward, Smith, and Robinson. However, in the French literature, this procedure was also described by others during the exact same time period (in the 1950s). At a meeting in Paris in 1955, Belgians Albert Dereymaeker and Joseph Cyriel Mulier, a neurosurgeon and an orthopedic surgeon, respectively, described the technique that involved an anterior cervical discectomy and the placement of an iliac crest graft in the intervertebral disc space. In 1956, a summary of their oral presentation was published, and a subsequent paper-an illustrated description of the technique and the details of a larger case series with a 3.5-year follow-up period-followed in 1958. The list of authors who first described ACDF should be completed by adding Dereymaeker's and Mulier's names. They made an important contribution to the practice of spinal surgery that was not generally known because they published in French.
颈椎前路椎间盘切除融合术（ACDF）是脊柱外科医生临床实践中一种广为人知且经常实施的手术。该技术最早的描述一直归功于克洛沃德、史密斯和罗宾逊。然而，在法国文献中，同一时期（20世纪50年代）也有其他人描述过这种手术。1955年在巴黎的一次会议上，比利时人阿尔贝·德雷马克尔和约瑟夫·西里尔·穆利耶，分别是神经外科医生和骨科医生，描述了一种技术，该技术包括颈椎前路椎间盘切除并在椎间盘间隙植入髂嵴骨移植。1956年，他们口头报告的摘要发表了，随后在1958年又发表了一篇论文——对该技术的图文描述以及一个更大病例系列在3.5年随访期后的详细情况。首次描述ACDF的作者名单应加上德雷马克尔和穆利耶的名字。他们对脊柱外科实践做出了重要贡献，但由于他们用法语发表，所以并不广为人知。
