BACKGROUND: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty have been widely used to treat @entity1 with cervical spondylotic @entity602 and/or @entity614 . In our clinical practice, many @entity1 with @entity4720 also complain of @entity10 , and wish to know if the surgical treatment for @entity4720 can also alleviate this symptom. Considering that there is no literature concerning this extra benefit of surgical manipulation on @entity4720 , we have carried out this retrospective study. METHODS: Among the @entity1 treated with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty in our institute for cervical spondylotic @entity602 and/or @entity614 between February 2002 to March 2011, 108 of whom that have complained about @entity10 at the same time were included in this study. Those @entity1 were followed by 25 to 145  months. Severity of @entity10 before the surgery and at the last follow up was recorded by VAS @entity158 scores and compared among the @entity1 with different surgical methods using SPSS17.0 software. One way ANOVA was used to compare VAS scores between the groups, paired sample t-tests were used to compare the differences in a group at different time points. RESULTS: @entity10 was significantly alleviated in all groups (P   <   0.01). Respectively, 75.0  % of the @entity1 in the ACDF group, 84.6  % of the @entity1 in the TDR group and 82.2  % of the @entity1 in the laminoplasty group were significantly relieved of the @entity10 after the surgery. No significant differences were found with the VAS score at the last follow up among the groups (P   >   0.05). No significant differences were found among the groups comparing the degree of alleviation of VAS scores before and after the surgery (P   >   0.05). DISCUSSION: Considering that all the three procedures in the current study have achieved similar effect on alliviating @entity10 in @entity1 with cevical @entity602 , and that what they have in common was that was the decompression of spinal cord, it can be assumed that the @entity10 associated with @entity4720 may be the result of compression on the spinal cord. CONCLUSIONS: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty can all significantly alleviate @entity10 in @entity1 with cervical spondylotic @entity602 and/or @entity614 . No surgical technique is better than any other technique on alleviating cervical @entity10 associated with cervical spondylotic @entity602 and/or @entity614 .

Effect of different surgical methods on @entity10 associated with cervical spondylotic XXXX and/or @entity614 .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients'] @entity602 :: ('MESH:D013118', 'Disease') :: ['myelopathy'] @entity158 :: ('MESH:D010146', 'Disease') :: ['pain'] @entity10 :: ('MESH:D006261', 'Disease') :: ['headache', 'Headache'] @entity614 :: ('MESH:D011843', 'Disease') :: ['radiculopathy'] @entity4720 :: ('MESH:D055009', 'Disease') :: ['cervical spondylosis']
@entity602 :: (MESH:D013118,Disease) :: ['myelopathy']
