Examples of laminectomy

• Three days after irradiation, rats were anesthetized as described above and a laminectomy performed to target near the longitudinal center of the irradiation field.

• Regarding orthopedic processes, it has been used for hip replacement (49), lumbar laminectomy (47), low back pain (55), and lumbar disc hernia (34).

• Risk factors for surgical-site infection complicating laminectomy.

• He has to go abroad for an operation for a laminectomy, which means that he is suffering from an extremely painful complaint.

• As a last resort, decompressive laminectomy may be attempted to relieve pain symptoms and remove the abnormally enlarged portions of bone.

• In laminectomy, the paraspinal muscles are dissected off the spine bilaterally, that is on the left and right sides of the spinal column.

• In contrast to traditional laminectomy, the lamina, spinous process, inter- and supraspinous ligaments are preserved.

• A laminectomy is a surgical operation to remove the laminae in order to access the spinal canal.

• In myelopathy (pathology of the spinal cord) from degenerative changes, the findings are usually permanent and decompressive laminectomy will not reverse the pathology.

• He was the first physician to remove a spinal tumor, in 1887, by means of a laminectomy.

• This technique contrasts with vertebral laminectomy in the amount of bone and muscle tissue that has to be removed, displaced, or dissected in the procedure.

• Laminectomy is the most effective of the surgical treatments.

• A laminectomy performed as a minimal spinal surgery procedure is a tissue-preserving surgery that leaves more of the muscle intact and spares the spinal process.

• The recovery period after a laminectomy depends on the specific operative technique, with minimally invasive procedures having significantly shorter recovery periods than open surgery.

• In some cases after laminectomy and spinal fusion, it may take several months to return to normal activities.