Clinical Outcome of Anterior vs Posterior Approach for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Introduction Cervical spondylotic myelopathy is a common cause of neurological morbidity. The decompression of the neural elements is the gold standard procedure for this pathology, but there is still a lot of controversy for the selection of the approach, anterior, posterior or combined. Methods 42 patients were enrolled with the diagnosis of cervical spondylotic myelopathy, the 42 underwent surgery with either anterior or posterior approach at the hospital Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente, Guadalajara, México, a follow up for up to one year was made, comparing the results with the modified score for the Japanese Association of Orthopaedics (mJAO) and the Nurick score. Results Patients were divided into two groups. homogeneity analysis were made, finding similar results between both groups (p