[Retracted] The Correlation between Functional Connectivity of the Primary Somatosensory Cortex and Cervical Spinal Cord Microstructural Injury in Patients with Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of the subjects.

Clinical variables	CSM ()	HC ()	value
Age	^a	^a	0.43^c
Gender (%)			0.938^d
Male	14	10
Female	19	13
Duration of symptoms (month)	^a	NA	—
NDI scores (%)	^a	NA	—
JOA scores	^a	NA	—
Motor function	6 (4, 6)^b	NA	—
Upper limb movement	3 (2, 3)^b	NA	—
Lower limb movement	3 (2, 3)^b	NA	—
Sensory function	4 (3, 4)^b	NA	—
Upper limb sensation	1 (1, 1)^b	NA	—
Lower limb sensation	1 (1, 2)^b	NA	—
Trunk sensation	2 (1, 2)^b	NA	—

Abbreviations: CSM: cervical spondylotic myelopathy; HC: healthy control; NDI: Neck Disability Index; JOA: Japanese Orthopedic Association; ^athe measurement data conforming to normal distribution, expressed as ; ^bthe measurement data that did not conform to normal distribution, expressed as median (interquartile spacing); ^cthe value obtained by the two-sample -test; ^dthe value obtained by test.