[Diagnosis and treatment of 11 patients with cevical spondylotic amyotrophy].

Objective: To explore clinical features, treatment methods and clinical effects of cervical spondylosis with proximal muscular atrophy.

Methods: Eleven patients with proximal-type cervical spondylotic amyotrophy were retrospectively studied from September 2016 to November 2020, including 7 males and 4 females, aged 38 to 68 years old. Clinical symptoms, MRI and neuroelectrophysiological manifestations were analyzed, and patients were treated with conservative treatment or anterior cervical decompression fusion surgery, respectively.