Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

10% to 40% of patients experience "failed back surgery syndrome," in which the vertebrae do not fuse back together, the report said. "The times in which spinal fusion and laminectomy work for ...

There are two main approaches to surgery: the posterior approach, in which a portion of the posterior aspect of the spinal canal is removed in a procedure known as laminectomy, and the anterior ...

one unnecessary spine surgery is performed every eight minutes. The most commonly performed unnecessary spine surgeries include laminectomy, fusion, and discectomy. In addition to exposing ...

Most patients with radiculopathy improve without surgery; however ... on the cause of radiculopathy and location in the spine (cervical vs. lumbar). Common surgical procedures are foraminotomy, ...

lumbar laminectomy, minimally invasive spine surgery, spinal motion preservation, and cervical and lumbar fusion procedures. His primary focus is spinal motion preservation operations, mainly ...

“Rachael had a craniotomy and she had a tumour removed from her cerebellum, and she had a laminectomy, which is surgery on her thoracic spine to remove part of a tumour from there.” ...