Effect of Early vs Delayed Surgical Treatment on Motor Recovery in Incomplete Cervical Spinal Cord Injury With Preexisting Cervical Stenosis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The optimal management for acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is unknown.

Objective

To determine whether early surgical decompression results in better motor recovery than delayed surgical treatment in patients with acute traumatic incomplete cervical SCI associated with preexisting canal stenosis but without bone injury.

Design, setting, and participants

This multicenter randomized clinical trial was conducted in 43 tertiary referral centers in Japan from December 2011 through November 2019. Patients aged 20 to 79 years with motor-incomplete cervical SCI with preexisting canal stenosis (American Spinal Injury Association [ASIA] Impairment Scale C; without fracture or dislocation) were included. Data were analyzed from September to November 2

SUBMITTER: OSCIS investigators 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8579238 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature