From the Netherlands: Posterior Surgery Noninferior to Anterior for Cervical Radiculopathy
For patients with cervical radiculopathy, posterior surgery is noninferior to anterior surgery with respect to success rate and reduction in arm pain, according to a study published online July 24 in the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.
Nadia F. Simões de Souza, M.D., from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues conducted a multicenter, noninferiority trial involving patients with single-level cervical radiculopathy in nine Dutch hospitals with two-year follow-up duration. A total of 265 patients were randomly assigned: 132 and 133 to the posterior surgery group (posterior cervical foraminotomy) and anterior surgery group (anterior discectomy with fusion), respectively. Primary outcome data were available for 236 of the 243 patients who underwent the allocated intervention.
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