Table 2. Treatments, surgical procedures and outcomes in our series of CSEA patients.

Treatment	Frequency	Outcome	Frequency
Antibiotics alone	8 (50%)	Full recovery; ambulate independently; no sphincter disturbance	8
Antibiotics+surgery	8 (50%)	Ambulate with assistance; possible sphincter disturbance; paraplegia or minimal recovery	2
ACDF	7 (87.5%)	Expired	2
Posterior decompression	1 (12.5%)	Lost to follow-upa	4
Corpectomyb	3 (37.5%)

Abbreviations: ACDF, anterior cervical decompression and fusion; CSEA, cervical spine epidural abscess.

^aThis included patients whose data were not available for follow-up results.

^bCorpectomy in two ACDF and one posterior decompression patient.