65-year-old female patient with spinal stenosis status post anterior cervical discectomy at C5-6 and C6-7. Assess hardware. There is an anterior plate with screws entering the C5, C6, and C7 vertebral bodies. The tips of the C7 screw overly the inferior endplate of the vertebral body without specific features of hardware complication. There are intervertebral spacer devices at C5-C6 and C6-C7. There is straightening of the cervical spine. There are calcifications in the soft tissues lateral to the cervical spine, likely within the carotid vasculature. Note is made of poor dentition.
Orthopedic fixation of the lower cervical spine.