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Table 3 Post-operative morbidity other than pain

From: Use of autologous bone graft in anterior cervical decompression: morbidity & quality of life analysis

 

No Bone Graft

(n = 18)

Bone Graft

(n = 29)

p value

Overall complications

17% (n = 3)

17% (n = 5)

0.959

Neck wound haematoma & infection

5.6% (n = 1)

6.9% (n = 2)

 

Horner's syndrome

5.6% (n = 1)

0

 

LRTI

5.6% (n = 1)

0

 

Iliac crest wound infection

n/a

6.9% (n = 2)

 

Bowel perforation

n/a

3.45% (n = 1)

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