Cord compression defined by MRI is the driving factor behind the decision to operate in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy despite poor correlation with disease severity

• Bryn Hilton,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9617-6753

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• Jennifer Tempest-Mitchell,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Benjamin M. Davies,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Jibin Francis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Richard J. Mannion,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Rikin Trivedi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Ivan Timofeev,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• John R. Crawford,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Douglas Hay,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Rodney J. Laing,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Peter J. Hutchinson,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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• Mark R. N. Kotter

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mrk25@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Addenbrooke's Hospital and University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

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