2003 年 52 巻 3 号 p. 603-606
Though pharyngeal oedema occurs after anterior cervical fusion comes to some degree, urgent intubation is rarely needed. Conventionally, extubation is determined by measuring the retropharyngeal distance at C3-C4 just after operation and side X-p is filmed after operation up to the third day. Steroid is then used as needed. Keishibukuryougan is increasingly used for the purpose of enhancing improvement of patients who received anterior cervical fusion during this one year and this agent has proved useful for this purpose.