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On the basis of the gathered data, we aim to propose an optimal choice of surgical treatment.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Summary of Background Data:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Anterior cervical osteophytes rarely cause symptoms that require surgical treatment, which disables bigger cohort analysis. Surgery always includes anterior osteophyte resection. Some authors propose instrumented anterior fusion after osteophyte resection as the first choice of surgery in order to prevent regrowth of osteophytes, whereas others support resection without fusion because of beneficial long-term results.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Diagnostics included plain radiography, contrast esophagography, computed tomography and\/or magnetic resonance imaging. Treatment consisted of left lateral cervicotomy and osteophytectomy. We performed a systematic review of the literature from 2006.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Average age at surgery was 69.5 years (63\u201377 y), average follow-up 61.9 months (15\u2013117 mo). Twenty-five osteophytes were resected, with average size of 12.7 mm (4\u201322 mm) preoperatively and 5.12 mm (0\u201312 mm) at final follow-up. Average functional outcome swallowing scale score before surgery was 3.3 (2\u20135) and 1.2 (0\u20135) at final follow-up. Only 1 patient had reoccurrence of symptoms because of osseous etiology.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Symptomatic ventral cervical osteophytes can be successfully treated by surgery. 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