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Published on: August 11, 2015
Management of two patients with dropped head syndrome utilizing anterior-posterior cervical surgery
Motohiro Takayama1, Yoshinori Maki2
1Department of Neurosurgery, Otsu City Hospital, Otsu, Shiga, Japan.
Background:
Two elderly patients with dropped head syndromes (DHS) were successfully treated with circumferential cervical surgery.
Case Description:
The two patients, respectively, 72 and 53 years of age, both underwent two-staged surgical procedures. The first surgery included the posterior placement of bilateral pedicle screws with multilevel facetectomies, followed by multilevel anterior cervical discectomy/fusion and posterior rod fixation.
Conclusion:
Circumferential decompression/fusion successfully addressed chin on chest deformity in two older patients.

