title: Surgery vs Conservative Care for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Surgery Is Appropriate for Progressive Myelopathy.
authors.affiliation: *Alan and Jacqueline Stuart Spine Research Center, Department of Neurosurgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts; ‡Department of Neurosurgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; §The Center for Spine Health and Department of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; ¶Department of Orthopedics, Columbia University, New York, New York; ‖Department of Neurosurgery, University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; #Department of Neurosurgery, Rutgers, State University of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
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