Naohiro Tachibana, Nobuaki Michihata, Takeshi Oichi, Kosei Nagata, Hideki Nakamoto, Nozomu Ohtomo, Yuichi Yoshida, Koji Nakajima, Junya Miyahara, So Kato, Toru Doi, Yuki Taniguchi, Yoshitaka Matsubayashi, Sakae Tanaka, Hideo Yasunaga, Yasushi Oshima
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. OBJECTIVES: With the aging of the Japanese population, patients with athetoid cerebral palsy (ACP) are getting older, and the rate of surgery for CSM is increasing in ACP patients. However, postoperative complications of such surgery among adult patients with ACP have not been reported yet. We investigated postoperative complications of surgery for CSM with ACP and compared them with those of surgery for CSM without ACP using a national inpatient database of Japan...
March 11, 2024: Global Spine Journal