Epidemiology, Signs & Symptoms of Cervical Myelopathy

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Cervical myelopathy is the most common disorder of the spinal cord in persons older than 55 years of age. Radiologic spondylotic changes increase with patient age - 90% of asymptomatic persons older than 70 years have some form of degenerative change in the cervical spine. Cervical spine myelopathy resulting from sagittal narrowing of the spinal canal and compression of the spinal cord is present in 90% of individuals by the seventh decade of life. Both sexes are affected equally. Cervical spondylosis usually starts earlier in men (50 years) than in women (60 years). It causes hospitalization at a rate of 4.04 per 100,000 person-years.



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