This animation illustrates a minimally invasive lumbar microdiscectomy, which may may involve either a lumbar laminectomy or laminotomy procedure in order to access the portion of spinal disc to be ...

The techniques vary according to which tissues are causing the compression. For example, laminoplasty involves the reshaping of part of a vertebral lamina, a laminotomy the making of a small hole the ...

If symptoms worsen, surgery is often recommended. The traditional surgical treatment for a herniated disc is a combination of laminotomy and either a discectomy, microdiscectomy, or endoscopic ...

Laminotomy removes some of the lamina. Laminectomy removes most or all of the lamina. The lamina can be removed at the same time as the diskectomy. Or, you might have it taken out in a separate ...

Lin et al. (23) reported nine surgical complications among 127 patients with lumbar spinal stenosis treated with unilateral laminotomy under endoscopy, including five cases of dural tears and four ...

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The choice of adopting unilateral pedicle screw fixation or using bilateral pedicle screw fixation in lumbar spinal stenosis remains controversial. In our context, very few ...

ABSTRACT: Aim: To compare between classic open surgeries and minimally invasive surgeries in Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. Methods: A comparative descriptive study, involved 117 patients suffering from ...

Abstract: Laminotomy is a minimally invasive endoscopic approach relating to the lamina in order to decompress the spinal cord due to disc herniation. A three-dimensional finite element model of L2, ...

This part of the procedure is called a laminotomy. Once this bone and ligament are removed, your surgeon can see and protect the spinal nerves. Once the disc herniation is found, the herniated disc ...