We studied 16 patients over 70 years old with cervical myelopathy. The average age at the time of operation was 73.7 years (range : 70 to 80) and the average follow-up time was 45 months (range : 5 to 111 months). The clinical results were evaluated based on the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (JOA) scoring system. The mean JOA score of the patients was 6.8 before operation and 10.0 aftersurgery. Pre-operative complications were hyper tension in 4 patients, diabetes mellitus in 2 patients, liver diseases in 2 patients, and heart failure in 1 patient. Post-operative complications were mental disorder after operation in 4 patients. Grafted bone of anterior decompression and fusion was displaced in 2 patients because of disorder. One of these patients required re-operation.
