Note: While removal of instrumentation necessary for approved fusion surgery is allowable (in Sections N and O), it is not reimbursable when new instrumentation is inserted at levels including all or part of the previously instrumented segments as it is considered integral to this procedure. The ...
In subject area: Medicine and Dentistry Laminectomy is the removal of the posterior portion of the bony ring that surrounds the spinal cord. From: Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (Second Edition), 2014 About this pageAdd to MendeleySet alert ...
Rates of complications depend partly on whether a spinal fusion is performed as part of the procedure; while the general rate of complications following a lumbar laminectomy is given as 6–7%, the rate rises to 12% of a spinal fusion has been done. ...
Of the seventy-two operated on by us, fifty-two had laminectomy and twenty spine fusion. A preoperative roentgenographic analysis of motion was made in seventeen of the patients and eighteen had a similar evaluation at intervals after operation to demonstrate progressive changes.Measurements of ...
The incidence and risk factors of postoperative neurological deterioration after posterior decompression with or without instrumented fusion for thoracic myelopathy. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016;95(49):e5519. Article Google Scholar Gargiulo G, Girardo M, Rava A, et al. Clinical comparison between ...
At the last follow-up, the ODI of groups Coflex and TLIF were significantly improved when compared with the preoperative values (p p ConclusionPosterior decompression combined with Coflex has the same midterm effectiveness as transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion in treating degenerative lumbar disc ...
Methods of discectomy and lumbar decompression continue to evolve in efforts to perform a surgical decompression. A direct decompression simply requires an operative corridor in which to access the spinal canal. We can study the same approach as some of the latest fusion techniques, including ...
The magnitude of the change in disk size between the 2 groups was statistically significant (P<0.01).The findings of this study suggest that regression of anterior disk-osteophyte complex occurs following cervical laminectomy and fusion, and likely provides another mechanism of spinal cord ...
We had the C3/4 anterior cervical disectomy and fusion as we planned. In addition, we performed a surgery to repair the damaged dura mater at the site of spinal cord herniation at the same second surgery. The integrity of the arachnoid membrane was preserved. The patient’s myelopathy ...
As a result, it has gradually become the preferred surgical approach for this condition, particularly in cases in which extensive spinal exposure is needed [27,55]. Pedicle screw devices are aimed primarily at arthrodesis (fusion), which could be used to form a rigid construct with the spine ...