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Neurosurgery
Research paper
Does age affect surgical outcomes in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy? Results from the prospective multicenter AOSpine International study on 479 patients

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  • Hiroaki Nakashima Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Lindsay A Tetreault Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Narihito Nagoshi Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Aria Nouri Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Branko Kopjar Department of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Paul M Arnold Department Neurosurgery, University of Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ronald Bartels Department of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Helton Defino Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Shashank Kale Department of Neurosurgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, Delhi, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Qiang Zhou Department of Orthopedics, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael G Fehlings Department of Surgery, Division of Neurosurgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Michael G. Fehlings, Suite 4W449, Toronto Western Hospital, 399 Bathurst St, Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 2S8; Michael.Fehlings{at}uhn.on.ca
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Nakashima H, Tetreault LA, Nagoshi N, et al
Does age affect surgical outcomes in patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy? Results from the prospective multicenter AOSpine International study on 479 patients
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 2016;87:734-740.

Publication history

  • Received April 20, 2015
  • Accepted July 16, 2015
  • First published September 29, 2015.
Online issue publication 
June 14, 2016

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