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Table 4 Effects of preoperative kyphosis on clinical outcomes of postoperative axial pain

From: Prevalence and risk factors of axial neck pain in patients undergoing multilevel anterior cervical decompression with fusion surgery

 

Postoperative axial pain(n = 24)

P value

Kyphosis (n = 11)

No kyphosis (n = 13)

Axial pain after surgery (yes/no)

 3 weeks

9/2

5/8

0.032

 3 months

4/7

3/9

0.554

 12 months

1/10

1/12

0.902

 JOA scores 1 year later

14.88 ± 1.46

14.07 ± 1.45

0.187

  1. For all the patients with postoperative axial pain, the improvement rate of axial pain was significantly higher for patients without cervical kyphosis at the early-term follow-up (3 weeks) (P < 0.05), and no significant differences were found at the medium-term and long-term follow-up