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Under what circumstances would you consider doing a cervical disc arthroplasty for management of cervical myelopathy?

Especially in light of the recent paper: Zeitouni et al., PMID 42066356.
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Neurosurgery · Stanford University
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I have usually been of the opinion that, in cervical myelopathy, allowing for continued motion at a segment by performing a disc arthroplasty seems counterintuitive; however, with this paper showing non-inferior results from disc arthroplasty, I am quite willing to change my thinking. I think in the...

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