Comparison of Anterior and Posterior Approaches for Acute Traumatic Central Spinal Cord Syndrome with Multilevel Cervical Canal Stenosis without Cervical Fracture or Dislocation

Table 7

Postoperative complications.

	Group A (n = 35)	Group B (n = 24)	value
During hospitalization	Dysphagia and pneumonia (1)	Surgical wound infection (1)	0.974
	Deep vein thrombosis (1)	C5 nerve root paralysis (1)
	Recurrent laryngeal nerve injury (1)
Sixth month	—	Axial neck pain (4)	0.012
Final visit	Adjacent segment degeneration (1)	Axial neck pain (1)	0.789

Significance between the two groups, .