Table 1

Baseline demographics and hospital presentation amongst the four surgical approaches. All cohorts were statistically different from one another in every possible combination (p<0.0001), except the difference between the laminoplasty and combined cohorts for Deyo score was not statistically significant (p>0.05).

AnteriorPosterior Decompression OnlyDecompression with Posterior FusionCombined APP-value
Age57.563.463.059.6<0.0001
LOS2.84.75.87.5<0.0001
Deyo Score0.500.650.710.66<0.0001