OBJECTIVES: To identify preoperative radiographic parameters that may be quantitatively predictive of postoperative spinal cord drift after cervical laminectomy and arthrodesis. SUMMARY OF ...

There are different types of surgery. You might have: a vertebrectomy – the surgeon removes a vertebrae a laminectomy – the surgeon removes part of a vertebrae (the lamina) to relieve pressure on the ...

These include: the decompressive laminectomy; spinal fusion; lumbar microdiscectomy; anterior cervical discectomy; vertebroplasty and percutaneous kyphoplasty. The real revolution in the field of ...

The goal of surgery is to relieve pressure on the spinal cord by decompressing the spinal canal. There are two main approaches to surgery: the posterior approach, in which a portion of the posterior ...