Early versus Delayed Surgical Decompression in Spinal Cord Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Asian J Neurosurg · 2025 · PMC12136963 · PMID 40485785

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In addition, the complete SCI group did achieve statistical significance in favor of late surgical decompression, which did not occur with the incomplete SCI group. Regarding improvement in AMS, there was a favorable trend toward the early surgical decompression group.

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Patients undergoing early decompression surgery had a shorter hospital stay of 5.95 days than those undergoing late decompression surgery; however, this difference did not reach statistical significance.

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