Table 3

Spine levels involved in ACDF of patients diagnosed with either UCF or MLCF.a

Spine LevelMLCF (n = 562)UCF (n = 281)
n = 63 n = 117 n = 65 n = 104 n = 134 n = 79 n = 85 n = 80 n = 70 n = 46
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7

  • Abbreviations: ACDF, anterior cervical discectomy and fusion; MLCF, middle-to-lower cervical fusion; UCF, upper cervical fusion.

  • The cells highlighted in black are a visualization of the cervical levels involved within the construct, not statistical significance. The associated P values are provided in the Results section.

  • ↵a Patients were classified as UCF or MLCF based on the inclusion of C3 to C4 level in the ACDF construct.