Effect of different surgical methods on headache associated with cervical spondylotic myelopathy and/or radiculopathy

BMC Surgery

Wei Tian¹  Shan Zheng¹  Jie Yu¹  Kai Yan¹  Aikeremujiang. Muheremu²  Yuqing Sun¹ 

[1] Department of Spine Surgery, Beijing Ji Shui Tan Hospital, 31 Xinjiekou East Street, Xicheng District 100035, Beijing, China;Medical Center, Tsinghua University, Haidian District 8610084, Beijing, China

关键词: Cervical spondylosis;    Headache;    Open door laminoplasty;    Total disk replacement;    Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion;   

Others  :  1226946
DOI  :  10.1186/s12893-015-0092-3

 received in 2015-02-11, accepted in 2015-09-17,  发布年份 2015

【 摘 要 】

Background

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty have been widely used to treat patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy and/or radiculopathy. In our clinical practice, many patients with cervical spondylosis also complain of headache, and wish to know if the surgical treatment for cervical spondylosis can also alleviate this symptom. Considering that there is no literature concerning this extra benefit of surgical manipulation on cervical spondylosis, we have carried out this retrospective study.

Methods

Among the patients treated with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty in our institute for cervical spondylotic myelopathy and/or radiculopathy between February 2002 to March 2011, 108 of whom that have complained about headache at the same time were included in this study. Those patients were followed by 25 to 145 months. Severity of headache before the surgery and at the last follow up was recorded by VAS pain scores and compared among the patients with different surgical methods using SPSS17.0 software. One way ANOVA was used to compare VAS scores between the groups, paired sample t-tests were used to compare the differences in a group at different time points.

Results

Headache was significantly alleviated in all groups (P < 0.01). Respectively, 75.0 % of the patients in the ACDF group, 84.6 % of the patients in the TDR group and 82.2 % of the patients in the laminoplasty group were significantly relieved of the headache after the surgery. No significant differences were found with the VAS score at the last follow up among the groups (P > 0.05). No significant differences were found among the groups comparing the degree of alleviation of VAS scores before and after the surgery (P > 0.05).

Discussion

Considering that all the three procedures in the current study have achieved similar effect on alliviating headache in patients with cevical myelopathy, and that what they have in common was that was the decompression of spinal cord, it can be assumed that the headache associated with cervical spondylosis may be the result of compression on the spinal cord.

Conclusions

Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty can all significantly alleviate headache in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy and/or radiculopathy. No surgical technique is better than any other technique on alleviating cervical headache associated with cervical spondylotic myelopathy and/or radiculopathy.

【 授权许可】

   
2015 Sun et al.

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