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Due to the experiences with cervical spinal surgery for decades, the statistical risks of severe complications caused by an operation have significantly decreased. Nevertheless, the patient has to be informed about these risks, and this information has to be documented in a consent form. In general, the risks for severe complications (injury of the spinal cord or nerve roots or blood vessels as well as the trachea and oesophagus) lie in the field of single-digit percentage or even less than 1 %. The prognosis of remission of a radicular syndrome after surgical decompression is very good. Likewise the results after surgical decompression in cases of spondylotic myelopathy have significantly improved.
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König, A., Spetzger, U. (2017). Information and Consent of the Patient. In: Degenerative Diseases of the Cervical Spine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47298-0_9
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