Surgical treatment of mixed cervical spondylosis with spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leakage: A case report

Table 1 Clinical effectiveness assessment

	JOA	VAS	NDI (%)
Preoperative	10	6	37.50
The first d after surgery	12	4	20.60
Fourteen d after surgery	14	3	16.30
Three mon after surgery	16	2	3.06

JOA: Japanese orthopaedic association; VAS: Visual analog scale; NDI: Cervical dysfunction index scale.

Table 2 Intervention and outcomes in degenerative cervical spondylosis with spontaneous cerebrospinal fluid leakage

Ref.	Jounal	Age and gender	Intervention	Clinical outcome	Follow-up
Witiw et al[2]	Eur Spine, 2012	46/F	C4-5 anterior discectomy and resection of the posterior osteophyte	Asymptomatic	2 mo
Arai et al[4]	No Shinkei Geka, 2016	69/F	Conservative treatment	Subjective improvement in orthostatic headaches	36 mo
Vishteh et al[3]	Journal of Neurosurgery, 1998	32/M	C5-6 anterior discectomy and osteophytectomy with suture closure of the dura	Asymptomatic	Unknown
Eross et al[1]	Cephalalgia, 2002	44/F	C5-6 anterior discectomy and osteophtectomy, C6 and C7 corpectomy and lumboperitoneal shunt	Persistent debilitating orthostatic headache	32 mo
Eross et al[1]	Cephalalgia, 2002	39/F	C7-T1 anterior discectomy and osteophytectomy with suture closure of the dura	50% subjective improvement in orthostatic headaches	1 mo
Eross et al[1]	Cephalalgia, 2002	46/M	Lumbar autologous epidural blood patch and propoxyphrene	Subjective improvement in orthostatic headaches	2 mo

F: Female; M: Male.