Anterior versus posterior surgical approaches to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy: outcomes of the prospective multicenter AOSpine North America CSM study in 264 patients.

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Published in Spine (Phila Pa 1976) on December 15, 2013

Authors

Michael G Fehlings1, Sean Barry, Branko Kopjar, Sangwook Tim Yoon, Paul Arnold, Eric M Massicotte, Alexander Vaccaro, Darrel S Brodke, Christopher Shaffrey, Justin S Smith, Eric Woodard, Robert J Banco, Jens Chapman, Michael Janssen, Christopher Bono, Rick Sasso, Mark Dekutoski, Ziya L Gokaslan

Author Affiliations

1: *University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada †University of Washington, Seattle, WA ‡Emory University, Atlanta, GA §University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS ¶Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA ‖University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT **University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA ††New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, MA ‡‡Boston Spine Group, Newton, MA §§Spine Education and Research Institute, Denver, CO ¶¶Brigham and Woman's Hospital, Boston, MA ‖ ‖Indiana Spine Group, Indianapolis, IN ***The CORE Institute, Phoenix, AZ; and †††John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.

Associated clinical trials:

Assessment of Surgical Techniques for Treating Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy (CSM) | NCT00285337

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