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laminectomy

[‚lam·ə′nek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Surgical removal of the lateral portion of the neural arch from one or more vertebrae.
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The researchers calculated that stenosis surgery using laminectomy cost is 77,000 dollars per QALY gained.
Spinal surgery for back pain not always cost-effective
A 52-year-old female presented for an elective C1 dorsal laminectomy and occipito-cervical stabilisation.
Adult Klippel-Feil syndrome: haemodynamic instability in the prone position and postoperative respiratory failure
The operative procedure usually recommended for patients with a Chiari I malformation and syrinx would be a suboccipital decompression with a cervical laminectomy and duraplasty.
Chiari I Malformation: Clinical Presentation and Management
The treatment for synovial cysts consists mostly of a decompressive laminectomy and excision of the cyst.
Thoracic Synovial Cyst at the Th2-3 Level Causing Myelopathy
Surgical results and prognostic factors for thoracic myelopathy caused by ossification of ligamentum flavum: posterior surgery by laminectomy. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 2013;155:1169-77.
Thoracic ossification of ligamentum flavum without myelopathy: a case report of dorsal pain/Miyelopatinin eslik etmedigi torakal ligamentum flavum ossifikasyonu: Dorsal agrili olgu sunumu
When both central canal and lateral recess stenosis available, then the total laminectomy was performed to enlarge spinal canal.
Analysis of surgeries for Degenerative lumbar stenosis in elderly patients
Surgical management of lumbar degenerative spinal stenosis with spondylolisthesis via posterior reduction with minimal laminectomy. J Spinal Disord Tech.
Surgical outcome of reduction and instrumented fusion in lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis
Surgery for lumbar disc disease with traditional laminectomy and discectomy can be an effective treatment but results in disruption of posterior stabilizing structures of spine and subsequent complications and so is not indicated for a single level disc herniation.
Treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc prolapse by traditional laminectomy: discectomy and by Inter laminar discectomy: foraminotomy: a comparitive study
(19) found that 3 mg morphine and 80 mg methylprednisolone-impregnated microfibrillar collagen placed over the dural sac improve pain scores after lumbar multilevel laminectomy. Mastronardi et al.
The Effects of Locally Administered Morphine Over the Dura on Postoperative Morphine Consumption and Pain After Lumbar Disc Surgery: A Prospective, Randomised, Double-Blind and Placebo-Controlled Study
This procedure is a treatment option for patients who have not responded positively to first-line therapies, such as oral pain medication and steroid injections, but do not have severe enough symptoms to require spinal fusion or laminectomy. The transaction is expected to be immaterial to adjusted earnings per share in 2019 and 2020, and accretive thereafter.
Boston Scientific to acquire Vertiflex for $465M upfront, milestone payments
She was originally diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma but after her condition deteriorated in the following days, an emergency surgery was performed for a multi-level laminectomy.
Dance Moms star shares horror spinal surgery photos after being 'misdiagnosed'; Abby Lee Miller shared an emotional post about her emergency spinal surgery, which attacked the doctors who 'misdiagnosed her'
Orthopedic surgeons and other contributors consider such topics as general spine anatomy and long tract pathways, cervical spine anatomy, lumbar spine anatomy, spinal history and physical examination, common radiographic measurements, lumbar disk disease, primary and metastatic spinal tumors, spinal infections, anterior cervical diskectomy and fusion, posterior cervical laminectomy and fusion, minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion, lateral lumbar interbody fusion, and common medical complications following routine spinal surgery.
Spine Essentials Handbook: A Bulleted Review of Anatomy, Imaging, Tests, and Procedures (online access included)
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