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. 2002 Jun 8;26(6):334–338. doi: 10.1007/s00264-002-0372-2

Factors affecting the surgical results of expansive laminoplasty for cervical spondylotic myelopathy

Sung Chung 1, Chong Lee 1, Kwang Chung 1
PMCID: PMC3620971  PMID: 12466864

Abstract.

We studied the outcome of expansive laminoplasty in 37 patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy. Patients were divided into two groups according to the recovery rate (RR) – a 'good' group (n=19), and a 'fair' group (n=18). Patients in the good group showed a greater pre-operative Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) score, a greater compression ratio, and a larger Pavlov ratio (P<0.05). The presence of high signal intensity on MRI proved to be of no prognostic importance.

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