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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Neurologic outcome of early versus late surgery for cervical spinal cord injury.
A prospective analysis evaluating neurologic outcome after early versus late surgery for cervical spinal cord trauma. ⋯ The results of this study reveal no significant neurologic benefit when cervical spinal cord decompression after trauma is performed less than 72 hours after injury (mean, 1.8 days) as opposed to waiting longer than 5 days (mean, 16.8 days).