Recovery patterns from C5 palsy after anterior cervical decompression and fusion, posterior cervical decompression and fusion, and laminoplasty for degenerative cervical myelopathy: systematic review and meta-analysis of 748 C5 palsy cases.

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Among the other radiological parameters, mean cord-lamina angle ( p =0.06) and length of laminectomy ( p =0.08) showed a tendency toward significance but ultimately failed to attain the threshold for statistical significance (based on analysis of variance).

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