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Pain from anterior iliac crest bone harvesting does not affect quality of life
April 2013
Pain from anterior iliac crest bone harvesting does not affect quality of life
Study Type:Therapy
OE Level Evidence:2
Journal Level of Evidence:N/A
Pain from donor site after anterior cervical fusion with bone graft: a prospective randomized study with 12 months of follow-up
Eur Spine J. 2013 Jan;22(1):142-7. doi: 10.1007/s00586-012-2456-z. Epub 2012 Aug 14Did you know you're eligible to earn 0.5 CME credits for reading this report? Click Here
Synopsis
107 patients with cervical radiculopathy were randomised to undergo anterior cervical fusion either with bone graft (BG) from the iliac crest or with no bone graft (NBG), to assess the pain from the donor site (DS) and whether it affected the patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Following evaluations over a 12 month period, results indicated that the pain from the bone graft harvestin...
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