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Table 3 JOA scores of patients who underwent an anterior approach or a posterior approach

From: Comparison of the safety and efficacy of anterior ‘skip’ corpectomy versus posterior decompression in the treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy

 

Anterior approach

Posterior approach

 

JOA

Recovery rate

JOA

Recovery rate

Preoperative

8.42 ± 2.30

 

8.62 ± 1.68b

 

Postoperative

11.70 ± 2.21a

33.89 ± 17.44

10.97 ± 1.81ab

27.41 ± 19.17c

Follow-up

14.60 ± 1.50a

73.57 ± 14.00

14.22 ± 1.37ab

65.79 ± 17.22c

  1. aCompared with patients before operation in the same group, p < 0.05. bCompared with the anterior group, p > 0.05. cCompared with the anterior group, p < 0.05.