0 an operation to remove the lamina (= one of the two curved parts of one of the bones in the back): --
In some cases after laminectomy and spinal fusion, it may take several months to return to normal activities.
The recovery period after a laminectomy depends on the specific operative technique, with minimally invasive procedures having significantly shorter recovery periods than open surgery.
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.
Laminectomy is the most effective of the surgical treatments.
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.
He was the first physician to remove a spinal tumor, in 1887, by means of a laminectomy.
In myelopathy (pathology of the spinal cord) from degenerative changes, the findings are usually permanent and decompressive laminectomy will not reverse the pathology.
A laminectomy is a surgical operation to remove the laminae in order to access the spinal canal.
