Comparison of Anterior and Posterior Approaches for Acute Traumatic Central Spinal Cord Syndrome with Multilevel Cervical Canal Stenosis without Cervical Fracture or Dislocation
Table 2
Secondary outcome measures.
Full sample (N = 59)
Group A (n = 35)
Group B (n = 24)
value
Operation time (minutes)
197.15 ± 30.93
214.54 ± 21.87
171.79 ± 23.96
<0.001
Blood loss (ml)
368.22 ± 120.09
336.71 ± 125.77
414.17 ± 96.27
0.014
Drainage (ml)
96.53 ± 37.02
79.54 ± 30.16
121.29 ± 32.14
<0.001
VAS scores
Postoperative day 1
3.81 ± 0.84
3.80 ± 0.93
3.83 ± 0.70
0.883
Discharge
1.17 ± 0.85
0.91 ± 0.70
1.54 ± 0.93
0.005
VAS: visual analogue scale. Significance between the two groups, .
