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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Zhu RS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594473 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Orthopaedic surgery 20180801 3
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to explore whether cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) was superior to anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in reducing secondary surgery. PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane Library databases were systematically searched. Outcomes were reported as relative risk (RR) with the corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI). The pooled data was calculated using a random-effect model. We also used the trial sequential analysis (TSA) to further verify our result ...[more]