Table 2.
Cervical Level | Total No. of Pedicle Screws | Total No. of Pedicle Breaches | 95% Confidence Interval | Pedicle Breaches | |||||||||||||
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Grade 0 | Grade 1 | Grade 2 | Grade 3 | Medial | Lateral | ||||||||||||
n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
C2 | 42 | 14.1 | 7 | 16.7 | 0.070-0.314 | 35 | 83.3 | 6 | 14.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 14.3 | 6 | 85.7 |
C3 | 28 | 9.4 | 6 | 21.4 | 0.083-0.410 | 22 | 78.6 | 6 | 21.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 33.3 | 4 | 66.7 |
C4 | 30 | 10.1 | 5 | 16.7 | 0.056-0.347 | 25 | 83.3 | 4 | 13.3 | 1 | 3.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 100.0 |
C5 | 48 | 16.2 | 16 | 33.3 | 0.204-0.484 | 32 | 66.7 | 9 | 18.8 | 5 | 10.4 | 2 | 4.2 | 2 | 12.5 | 14 | 87.5 |
C6 | 52 | 17.5 | 17 | 32.7 | 0.203-0.471 | 35 | 67.3 | 12 | 23.1 | 4 | 7.7 | 1 | 1.9 | 1 | 5.9 | 16 | 94.1 |
C7 | 97 | 32.7 | 17 | 17.5 | 0.106-0.266 | 80 | 82.5 | 14 | 14.4 | 3 | 3.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 17.6 | 14 | 82.4 |
Total | 297 | 100.0 | 68 | 22.9 | 0.182-0.281 | 229 | 77.1 | 51 | 17.2 | 13 | 4.4 | 4 | 1.3 | 9 | 13.2 | 59 | 86.8 |