Posterior cervical foraminotomy versus anterior cervical discectomy for Cervical Brachialgia: the FORVAD RCT

Background Posterior cervical foraminotomy and anterior cervical discectomy are routinely used operations to treat cervical brachialgia, although definitive evidence supporting superiority of either is lacking. Objective The primary objective was to investigate whether or not posterior cervical fora...

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Main Authors: Simon Thomson, Gemma Ainsworth, Senthil Selvanathan, Rachel Kelly, Howard Collier, Ruben Mujica-Mota, Rebecca Talbot, Sarah Tess Brown, Julie Croft, Nikki Rousseau, Ruchi Higham, Yahia Al-Tamimi, Neil Buxton, Nicholas Carleton-Bland, Martin Gledhill, Victoria Halstead, Peter Hutchinson, James Meacock, Nitin Mukerji, Debasish Pal, Armando Vargas-Palacios, Anantharaju Prasad, Martin Wilby, Deborah Stocken
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: NIHR Journals Library 2023-10-01
Series:Health Technology Assessment
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3310/OTOH7720