Oren N. Gottfried, MD

Although patients with depression presented with and maintained worse spine disease severity after lumbar spine surgery vs. those without depression, researchers found these groups experienced a similar degree of postoperative improvement.

The surgical management of unstable cervical or cervical-thoracic fractures related to trauma or cervical spondylosis includes anterior, posterior or combined approaches. For the posterior approach, there are several options for screw locations. For example, many surgeons select to use lateral mass screws in the subaxial spine (cervical levels three to seven).