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• Loss of neck mobility (minimal, unless fusion extended to occiput and C1)

• Intraoperative CSF leak

• Blood clot (deep vein thrombosis, or more severe pulmonary embolism)

• Damage to spinal nerves and/or cord

• Postoperative weakness or numbness or continued pain

• Postoperative wound infection

• Continued symptoms postsurgically/unresolved symptoms with no improvement to quality of life

• Prolonged hospitalization due to invasiveness of surgery and other comorbidities/iatrogenic infection