Table 4.
Functional and fusion outcomes
| Functional outcomes | |
| Survival | 53 (100%) |
| Pain | |
| Average pain (scale from 1 to 5) | 1.5 ± 0.9 |
| Pain improved | 85% |
| Motor function | |
| Average arm functional score | 4.6 ± 0.7 |
| Average leg functional score | 4.5 ± 0.8 |
| Myelopathy | |
| Average postoperative Nurick Score | 0.4 ± 0.9 |
| Average Nurick score improvement | 1.7 |
| Myelopathy | |
| Improved | 41 (77.4%) |
| Stable | 12 (22.6%) |
| Radiographic outcomes | |
| Fusion | |
| Excellent | 51 (96.3%) |
| Satisfactory | 2 (3.8%) |
| Alignment | |
| Excellent | 52 (98.1%) |
| Satisfactory | 1 (1.9%) |
| Hardware | |
| Excellent | 52 (98.1%) |
| Satisfactory | 1 (1.9%) |
| Follow-up time | |
| Mean (months) | 17.5 ± 11.5 |