• Eur Spine J · Jun 2018

    Postoperative K-line conversion from negative to positive is independently associated with a better surgical outcome after posterior decompression with instrumented fusion for K-line negative cervical ossification of the posterior ligament.

    • Masao Koda, Takeo Furuya, Junya Saito, Yasushi Ijima, Mitsuhiro Kitamura, Seiji Ohtori, Sumihisa Orita, Kazuhide Inage, Tetsuya Abe, Hiroshi Noguchi, Toru Funayama, Hiroshi Kumagai, Kosei Miura, Katsuya Nagashima, and Masashi Yamazaki.
    • Departments of Orthopedic Surgery, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 805-8575, Japan. masaokod@gmail.com.
    • Eur Spine J. 2018 Jun 1; 27 (6): 1393-1400.

    PurposeAddition of posterior instrumented fusion to laminoplasty (posterior decompression with instrumented fusion: PDF) can improve the surgical outcome of patients with K-line (-) cervical ossification of the longitudinal ligament (OPLL) compared with laminoplasty alone. We sought to elucidate the factors that are significantly associated with a better outcome after PDF for K-line (-) OPLL.MethodsThe present study included 38 patients who underwent PDF for K-line (-) OPLL and were followed up for at least 1 year after surgery. Clinical outcome was assessed using Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) scores for cervical myelopathy and the recovery rate was calculated. Patients who belonged to the upper quartile of all the patients according to rank order of the JOA score recovery rate were considered to have a good outcome. The correlations between good outcome, patient factors and imaging assessments were analyzed statistically.ResultsUnivariate analyses showed that postoperative conversion of K-line from (-) to (+) (p = 0.004), no increase in the sagittal vertical axis from the center of gravity of the head to C7 (p = 0.07), and a lower grade of preoperative intramedullary T2-signal intensity (p = 0.03) were candidates for the association. Stepwise logistic regression analysis revealed that postoperative K-line conversion from (-) to (+) is an independent factor that is significantly associated with a better surgical outcome (p = 0.04).ConclusionPostoperative K-line conversion from (-) to (+) is a factor independently associated with a better surgical outcome. These slides can be retrieved under Electronic Supplementary material.

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