Any one of patients' characteristics could not be correlated with postoperative cervical radiculopathy in this study. To prevent postoperative radiculopathy, it may be important during surgery to place the bony gutter on the medial side of the zygapophyseal joint and to keep the slope of the opened lamina within 60 degrees.
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