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 ...

Some other forms of decompressive spinal surgery include laminotomy and discectomy. Laminotomy is similar to laminectomy. However, during laminotomy, a surgeon removes just a small part of the lamina.

Neuman reported 22.4% (13 of 58) of patients who underwent a posterior lumbar fusion with multilevel laminectomy developed ASD. There was a 5.2% (3 of 58) reoperation rate.

Laminectomy is a surgical procedure undertaken to relieve symptoms caused by pressure (decompression surgery) on the spinal nerve roots due to stenosis or narrowing of the spinal canal.

Shiraishi T, Yato Y, Fukuda K, et al. Skip laminectomy — minimally invasive multilevel decompression of the cervical spine. #16. Presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Spine Society of Europe.

Open surgical laminectomy and minimally invasive decompression (MID) surgery are two common procedures for treating LSS in the absence of instability (5 – 11). LSS can have substantial implications ...

The hypothesis tested by the Spinal Laminectomy versus Instrumented Pedicle Screw (SLIP) trial was that lumbar laminectomy with instrumented (rigid pedicle screws affixed to titanium alloy rods ...

Background/context: Decompressive laminectomy (DL) for lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is the most common spinal surgery for older adults. Biopsychosocial factors are associated with 1-year outcomes in ...