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Incidence of C5 palsy in anterior cervical decompression & fusion, posterior cervical decompression & fusion and laminoplasty for degenerative cervical myelopathy: systematic review and meta-analysis of 21,231 cases.

Asian Spine J · 2026 · PMC12960464 · PMID 41017260

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tended toward significanceno p-value reported
In addition, preoperative symptoms such as tingling or numbness ( p =0.08) and inadvertent dropping of objects ( p =0.09) tended toward significance, but were not statistically significant in multivariate analysis.

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did not reach statistical significanceno p-value reported
Other radiological parameters, such as mean cord-lamina angle and length of laminectomy, showed trends toward significance ( p =0.06 and p =0.08, respectively) but did not reach statistical significance.

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