Targeting earlier diagnosis: What symptoms come first in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy?

• Colin F. Munro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7235-3970

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• Ratko Yurac,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Traumatology, Spine Unit, Clinica Alemana de Santiago SA, Vitacura, Santiago, Chile, Department of Orthopedic and Traumatology, Desarrollo University Faculty of Medicine, Las Condes, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3603-6294

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• Zipser Carl Moritz,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Spine Center, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Michael G. Fehlings,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ricardo Rodrigues-Pinto,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, Spinal Unit (UVM), Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto EPE, Porto, Portugal, Universidade do Porto Instituto de Ciencias Biomedicas Abel Salazar, Porto, Portugal

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• James Milligan,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation McMaster University Department of Family Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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• Konstantinos Margetis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Mark R. N. Kotter,

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

  Affiliations Division of Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Myelopathy.org, Charity for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

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• Benjamin M. Davies

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

  * E-mail: bd375@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliations Division of Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Myelopathy.org, Charity for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, AOSpine International, RECODE DCM Incubator, Diagnostic Criteria, Davos, Graubünden, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0591-5069

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