Table 2.
Patient characteristics and preoperative assessment
| Number of patients | 53 |
| Age (years) | |
| Mean | 51.9 ± 14.6 |
| Median | 51 |
| Range | 14–78 |
| Gender | |
| Male | 31 |
| Female | 22 |
| Preoperative presentation | |
| Infection | 2 (4%) |
| Trauma | 18 (34%) |
| Tumor | 3 (6%) |
| Degenerative | 30 (57%) |
| Prior cervical surgery | |
| Prior fusion | 12 (23%) |
| Prior decompression | 9 (17%) |
| Structural abnormality | |
| Instability | 19 (36%) |
| Deformity | 21 (40%) |
| Preoperative assessment | |
| Average pain score | 4.2 ± 1.1 |
| Average arm motor score | 4.1 ± 0.7/5 |
| Average leg motor score | 3.9 ± 1.1/5 |
| Average Nurick myelopathy grade | 2.1 ± 1.9 |