laminectomy

Here's what to expect before, during, and after your laminectomy.

Don't eat or drink anything after midnight the night before your laminectomy.

Spinal fusion may also be performed at the same time as laminectomy.

From the minute he had opened her up and could see that the cervical laminectomy would do no good.

Laminectomy is one of the most common back surgeries.

Age should not be a factor in deciding whether to have decompressive laminectomy.

Laminectomy can cause the spine to be less stable.

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

Laminectomy is the most effective of the surgical treatments.

He wants to do surgery called a "laminectomy."

Most commonly, a laminectomy is performed to treat spinal stenosis.

She underwent a successful decompressive laminectomy with resolution of her symptoms.

Most often this was a decompressive laminectomy without fusion.

The main type of surgery for spinal stenosis is decompressive laminectomy.

Laminectomy removes most of or all of the lamina.

This is called a laminotomy or laminectomy.

After a laminectomy and fusion, spinal stenosis may develop directly above or below the surgery site.

It appeared as if she'd had an extensive laminectomy involving the fourth lumbar vertebra.

The laminectomy is commonly performed on the vertebrae in the lower back and in the neck.

During a laminectomy the surgeon will either replace or remove the top of the vertebrae called the laminae.

An unstable spine (more common after more than one laminectomy is done without spinal fusion).

So I had a cervical laminectomy and before the operation, the nurse accidentally shaved the back of my head unnecessarily.

To understand a laminectomy, one must also understand an important part of the spinal vertebrae called a "lamina."

Decompressive laminectomy is the most common type of surgery done to treat spinal stenosis.

Procedures such as microdiscectomy, laminectomy, and artificial discs rely on microsurgery.