TY - JOUR AU - Mohamad Saekhu AU - Samsul Ashari AU - David Tandian AU - Setyo Widi Nugroho PY - 2019/08/09 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion in a 7-year-old boy: a case report JF - Medical Journal of Indonesia JA - Med J Indones VL - 28 IS - 2 SE - Case Report/Series DO - 10.13181/mji.v28i2.2673 UR - http://mji.ui.ac.id/journal/index.php/mji/article/view/2673 AB - Bicycle mishap, a common and ordinary event occurring in children, can have devastating consequences associated with cervical spine injury. Furthermore, either diagnosis or surgical management of cervical spine injury in children is a challenging issue. This research report a challenging case of an anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion with plating in a 7-year-old boy due to cervical spine instability with spinal cord compression after a bicycle mishap. After 20 months of the primary surgery, the titanium-based cervical plate was removed by a second surgery to allow the growth of the cervical spine. ER -