Applicant provides a surgical method related to ACDF and a device for practicing the surgical method. The device comprises an aspiration needle assembly having an aspiration needle, the aspiration needle assembly adapted for receipt into a bony body at a preselected depth. Applicant's surgical method is an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion but one in which bone marrow is aspirated from a selected cervical vertebral body, rather than the iliac crest or other area of a patient's body. Moreover, Applicant has discovered that orienting the axis of the needle and the location of the needle such that the needle draws bone marrow from adjacent end plate rather than a center of the cervical vertebral body provides a richer bone marrow concentration, that is to say, richer in stem cells.
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