Table 3.

Previous Reports of Perioperative Complication Rate for NMS.

	Major complication rate	Overall complication rate	Diagnosis
Boachie-Adjei et al. 1989	N/A	48%	CP: 22; others: 34
Gau et al. 1991	N/A	62%	CP: 34; others: 34
Ramirez et al. 1997	27%	43%	DMD: 30
Benson et al. 1998	6%	28%	CP: 20; others: 30
Sarwashi et al. 2001	21.6%	22.5%	Spinal dysraphism: 58; CP: 25; others: 28
Mohamad et al. 2007	N/A	33.1%	CP: 129; others: 46
Modi et al. 2009	24%	68%	DMD: 18; CP: 18; SMA: 8; others: 6
Rummalla et al. 2016	N/A	40.1%	N/A
Bendon et al. 2016	49%	N/A	CP: 19
Present study	6%	24%	DMD: 46; SMA: 18; others: 19

N/A: not available

CP: cerebral palsy

DMD: Duchenne muscular dystrophy

SMA: Spinal muscular atrophy