@article{article_1642620, title={Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion vs Posterior Key-Hole Foraminotomy in Single Level Cervical Discopathy}, journal={Muğla Sıtkı Koçman Üniversitesi Tıp Dergisi}, volume={12}, pages={174–178}, year={2025}, DOI={10.47572/muskutd.1642620}, author={Gürsoy, Güven and Güvenç, Gönül}, keywords={Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion, Posterior Cervical Foraminotomy, Radiculopathy}, abstract={Anterior cervical microdiscectomy and fusion (ACDF) and posterior cervical foraminotomy (PCF) are frequently applied surgical approaches in cervical radiculopathies. It is planned to compare and discuss the clinical results, complications, amount of bleeding, recurrence and reoperation rates, and instability development between these two methods and examine the superiority of the techniques in this study. Patient archives were scanned and clinical and radiological documents were examined for this retrospective study. Short-term (postoperative first 24 hours) and long-term (1-6 months) changes in preoperative complaints, preoperative and postoperative functional cervical spine radiographs and cervical MRI images, presence of complications, amount of bleeding, recurrence and reoperation status were recorded. Trauma patients, patients with instability and malignancy-related pathologies, patients with multilevel surgical intervention or previous cervical spine surgery anamnesis, patients under the age of 18, and patients whose data were not available were excluded from the study. No statistically significant difference was found between the amount of bleeding, pain in the first 24 hours postoperatively, pain in the 1st month, pain in the 6th month, development of complications, recurrence and reoperation rates, and development of instability. It was observed that the surgical time of posterior foraminotomy was shorter and was statistically significant. It was observed that neither surgical technique had any obvious superiority over the other in the 6-month postoperative period. Different results can be achieved with larger sample size and longer term follow-up.}, number={2}, publisher={Mugla Sitki Kocman University}