Table 6.
Neurological status in patients with DISH (based on n = 55)
| Surgical treatment | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | |
| Post-treatment (<3 months) | |||||
| A | 5 | 1 | |||
| B | |||||
| C | 3 | 1 | |||
| D | 1 | 4 | |||
| E | 1 | 3 | 11 | ||
| Follow-up (>3 months) | |||||
| A | 6 | ||||
| B | 1 | ||||
| C | 2 | 1 | |||
| D | 3 | 1 | |||
| E | 8 | ||||
| Conservative treatment | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | E | |
| Post-treatment (<3 months) | |||||
| A | 5 | ||||
| B | |||||
| C | 1 | ||||
| D | 1 | ||||
| E | 2 | 1 | 15 | ||
| Follow-up (>3 months) | |||||
| A | 1 | ||||
| B | |||||
| C | |||||
| D | 1 | 1 | |||
| E | 1 | 13 | |||
Bold values stand for the number of patients in which neurological status was unchanged after treatment, resulting in an ASIA classification that did not alter (so A–A, B–B, C–C etc)