Long-Term Follow-Up After Surgery for Chronic Spondylogenous Myelopathy

Both in published series (1–8) and in our own material the surgical management of cervical spondylogenous myelopathies has been found to be rather disappointing, since it has no effect other than halting the progression of neurologic deficits in most of the cases. This prompted us to conduct a follow-up study, the purpose being to shed light on those factors which might improve postoperative results.