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Grade of adjacent level degeneration in patients treated by Cloward procedure—the line shows that the value of SSA is 0: patients under the line have a negative SSA that represents the alignment in kyphosis of the level (Group A); patients on top of this line have a positive SSA that represents the alignment in lordosis of the level (Group B). Grade 1 was considered as physiological arthritis
