Skip Laminectomy Compared with Laminoplasty for Cervical Compressive Myelopathy: AÂ Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
11025473	World Neurosurgery	2018	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

This meta-analysis determined that skip laminectomy was superior to laminoplasty in terms of visual analogue scale score and rates of axial pain and muscle atrophy. These results warrant further confirmation in future research.

Keywords

VAS WMD JOA Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation Japanese Orthopaedic Association Range of motion ROM confidence interval Meta-analysis Cervical laminoplasty Review Grade visual analogue scale weighted mean difference odds ratio