corpectomy

The Innovative Fusion products are uses in cervical, thoracolumbar, sacral, and interbody, corpectomy fusion procedures to treat degenerative, deformity, tumor, and trauma conditions.

Cervical corpectomy: A procedure that removes a portion of the vertebra and adjacent intervertebral discs to allow for decompression of the cervical spinal cord and spinal nerves.

Furthermore, hypergastrinaemia after antrum exclusion or partial gastric corpectomy and exogenous hypergastrinaemia induced by continuous infusion of gastrin evoked proliferation of the enterochromaffin like cells in the rat stomach.

Chen, M, Qureshi S, Hecht AC: Anterior Thoracic Corpectomy, Operative Techniques in Orthopaedic Surgery, ed.

A corpectomy is a surgical procedure that involves removing all or part of the vertebral body (Latin: corpus vertebrae, hence the name corpectomy), usually as a way to decompress the spinal cord and nerves.

In the study by Mattsson et al describing development of enterochromaffin like carcinoids in rats afer longterm hypergastrinaemia caused by partial corpectomy, the plasma gastrin concentration might have been above the minimal concentration necessary to give maximal trophic effect (supramaximal concentration).