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Fig. 5 | Patient Safety in Surgery

Fig. 5

From: Empty polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cages in anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion (ACDF) show slow radiographic fusion that reduces clinical improvement: results from the prospective multicenter “PIERCE-PEEK” study

Fig. 5

Histogram of the number of patients achieving various degrees of improvement of their VAS pain score. The X-axis shows the amount of improvement in the VAS pain score from pre-up to follow-up, (thus higher numbers are better). The Y-axis is the number of patients with that amount of improvement. a) At the 6-month follow-up. b) At the 12-month follow-up. c) At the 18-month follow-up

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Patient Safety in Surgery

ISSN: 1754-9493

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