Neurological recovery rate and minimal clinically important difference as metrics for assessing outcomes of decompressive surgery in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy

Laura Ganau; Gianfranco K I Ligarotti; Mario Ganau

doi:10.1007/s00701-022-05364-x

Neurological recovery rate and minimal clinically important difference as metrics for assessing outcomes of decompressive surgery in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy

Acta Neurochir (Wien). 2022 Dec;164(12):3181-3183. doi: 10.1007/s00701-022-05364-x. Epub 2022 Sep 22.

Authors

Laura Ganau¹, Gianfranco K I Ligarotti², Mario Ganau³

Affiliations

¹ School of Medicine, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy.
² Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Milan, Italy.
³ Department of Neurosurgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK. Mario.Ganau@alumni.harvard.edu.

PMID: 36136168
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-022-05364-x

No abstract available

Keywords: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy; Degenerative cervical myelopathy; Frailty; Modified Japanese Orthopedic Association; Patient-reported outcome measures.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Benchmarking
Cervical Vertebrae / surgery
Humans
Minimal Clinically Important Difference
Spinal Cord Diseases* / surgery
Spondylosis* / surgery
Treatment Outcome