Of more than 100 patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy who underwent skip laminectomy since December 1998, 43 patients were followed for more than two years (average, 2.5 years ...

Surgical options aim to relieve pressure on the spinal cord and provide stability to the neck. Common procedures are posterior cervical laminectomy, discectomy and fusion, or corpectomy.

A new minimally invasive, multilevel cervical spine procedure, skip laminectomy is indicated for patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and calcification of the ligamentum flavum ...

About 20% of people who have spinal surgery may feel pain, known as post-laminectomy syndrome (PLS ... but it may happen because of scar tissue developing after surgery. Treatments often involve ...

In the end, he was forced to undergo a major spinal surgery called a cervical laminectomy. It turned out the star had a ruptured disc in his neck and his spinal cord was severely pinched – as ...

However, in the process of performing the laminectomy, some patients lay down excess scar tissue, which webs down the nerve root it is intending to decompress, and subsequently creates it’s own ...