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 ...

Traditionally, the surgical management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis consisted of decompressive laminectomy alone. In 1985, Lombardi and colleagues [7] reported the results of 47 ...

The comparative effectiveness of performing instrumented (rigid pedicle screws affixed to titanium alloy rods) lumbar spinal fusion in addition to decompressive laminectomy in patients with ...

Many people experience pain relief after receiving a laminectomy or other decompressive surgery. In a 2021 study, researchers found that 73% of 2,699 people who underwent lumbar decompression ...

Laminectomy is a type of back surgery in which a surgeon removes part or all of the lamina. Some people may refer to the surgery as a posterior spinal decompression. Doctors use laminectomy to ...

Based on the preoperative cine-MRI, the types of surgery appropriate to correct the CSF flow obstruction were chosen: decompressive laminectomy-adhesiolysis and augmentation duraplasty in ...

interspinous distractor device and open decompression surgery with laminectomy. Both procedures improved the patients' quality of life; however, overall, laminectomy gave patients a better quality ...

Is Medical necessity supported for the additional procedure to have been performed? Let’s say a laminectomy, decompression of the spine, facetectomy of the L2 vertebra for spinal stenosis and ...