[Treatment of radiculo-spinal complications of cervic arthrosis with Cloward's method. Results concerning 370...

370 patients exhibiting a brachial radiculalgia or a spinal cord disease due to cervicarthrosis were submitted to surgery according to Cloward's technique; freeing or grafting were performed in 682 levels. A study of this surgical management is made and compared with the other therapeutical modalities. A consensus of the results leads to offer this kind of mangement to the initial stage of the disease before the appearing of definitive sclerotic or atrophic lesions. The arthrosic lesions interesting numerous levels, the anatomic-clinical discrepancies concerning the injured level, the misknowledge of the exact physiopathogenesis of the nervous lesions, plead in favour of anterior cervical grafts interesting numerous levels.