It was reported that a retrospective administrative database study was performed of over 90,000 patients who underwent cervical spine procedures in the united states from 2006 to 2010.The authors used the marketscan research database; 91,543 of the patients in the marketscan database underwent acdf (with or without concomitant cervical corpectomy, and with or without concomitant posterior cervical spine procedures); 3179 of these patients received rhbmp intraoperatively.5 patients in the rhbmp cohort died at the index procedure.
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