Laminectomy

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2012 Young Investigator Award winner: The distribution of body mass as a significant risk factor for lumbar spinal fusion postoperative infections. 
  • A Multicenter Evaluation of Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes Following High-grade Spondylolisthesis Reduction and Fusion. 
  • A biomechanical, radiologic, and clinical comparison of outcome after multilevel cervical laminectomy or laminoplasty in the rabbit. 
  • A no-laminectomy spinal cord compression injury model in mice. 
  • A rare case of metastatic extramammary Paget disease of the spine and review of the literature. 
  • Adult cervicothoracic lipomyelomeningocele. 
  • Anterior versus posterior surgical approaches to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy: outcomes of the prospective multicenter AOSpine North America CSM study in 264 patients. 
  • Are Exercise and Physical Therapy Common Forms of Conservative Management in the Year Before Lumbar Spine Surgery? 
  • Avoiding Cardiovascular Collapse: Pediatric Cutaneous Mastocytosis and Anesthetic Challenges. 
  • Axonal regrowth after spinal cord injury via chondroitinase and the tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)/plasmin system. 
  • B1 and TRPV-1 receptor genes and their relationship to hyperalgesia following spinal cord injury. 
  • C5 palsy after cervical laminectomy and fusion: does width of laminectomy matter? 
  • Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 1: validation of an ICD-9-CM code search algorithm. 
  • Clinical outcomes following sublaminar decompression and instrumented fusion for lumbar degenerative spinal pathology. 
  • Clinical outcomes of extreme lateral interbody fusion in the treatment of adult degenerative scoliosis. 
  • Complications, reoperation rates, and health-care cost following surgical treatment of lumbar spondylolisthesis. 
  • Congenital Scoliosis of the Pediatric Cervical Spine: Characterization of a 17-Patient Operative Cohort. 
  • Crossing the Cervicothoracic Junction in Posterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion: A Cohort Analysis. 
  • Disappearing bone disease and Chiari I malformation. 
  • Disparities in the outcomes of lumbar spinal stenosis surgery based on insurance status. 
  • Dorsal surgery for myelopathy and myeloradiculopathy. 
  • Dorsal thoracic spinal cord herniation: report of an unusual case and review of the literature. 
  • Effects of age and comorbidities on complication rates and adverse outcomes after lumbar laminectomy in elderly patients. 
  • Expert's comment concerning grand rounds case entitled "surgical treatment of a 180° thoracolumbar fixed kyphosis in a young achondroplastic patient: a one stage 'in situ' combined fusion and spinal cord translocation" (by J. C. Aurégan, T. Odent, M. Zerah, J.-P. Padovani and C. Glorion). 
  • Extensive spinal epidural abscess treated with "apical laminectomies" and irrigation of the epidural space: report of 2 cases. 
  • Extradural thoracic arteriovenous malformation in a patient with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome: case report. 
  • Holospinal epidural abscesses - Institutional experience. 
  • How Many Steps Per Day During the Early Postoperative Period are Associated With Patient-Reported Outcomes of Disability, Pain, and Opioid Use After Lumbar Spine Surgery? 
  • In response. 
  • Increased 30-Day Complication Rates Associated with Laminectomy in 874 Adult Patients with Spinal Deformity Undergoing Elective Spinal Fusion: A Single Institutional Study. 
  • Inhibition of epidural scar formation after lumbar laminectomy in the rat. 
  • Intermittent claudication due to cauda equina compression. 
  • Interspinous device versus laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis: a comparative effectiveness study. 
  • Laminectomy alone versus fusion for grade 1 lumbar spondylolisthesis in 426 patients from the prospective Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Laminectomy and fusion after spinal cord injury: national inpatient complications and outcomes. 
  • Laminoplasty versus laminectomy with fusion for the treatment of spondylotic cervical myelopathy: short-term follow-up. 
  • Laminoplasty versus laminectomy with posterior spinal fusion for multilevel cervical spondylotic myelopathy: influence of cervical alignment on outcomes. 
  • Lateral mass versus hybrid construct for cervical laminectomy and fusion. 
  • Local anaesthesia for laminectomy surgery. 
  • Long-term outcome of patients with intraspinal neuroblastoma. 
  • Lumbar Lateral Recess Decompression: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. 
  • Microsurgical treatment of sacral perineural (Tarlov) cysts: case series and review of the literature. 
  • Myxopapillary Ependymoma and Fatty Filum in an Adult with Tethered Cord Syndrome: A Shared Embryological Lesion? Case Report. 
  • National trends, complications, and outcomes following transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's disease from 1993 to 2002. 
  • Outcomes after cervical laminectomy with instrumented fusion versus expansile laminoplasty: a propensity matched study of 3185 patients. 
  • Outcomes after laminoplasty compared with laminectomy and fusion in patients with cervical myelopathy: a systematic review. 
  • Perioperative and delayed complications associated with the surgical treatment of cervical spondylotic myelopathy based on 302 patients from the AOSpine North America Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy Study. 
  • Perioperative complications with costotransversectomy and anterior approaches to thoracic and thoracolumbar tumors. 
  • Posterior Cervical Decompression and Fusion With Exoscope: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. 
  • Postoperative infection in spine surgery: does the month matter? 
  • Postoperative management of incidental durotomy in minimally invasive lumbar spinal surgery. 
  • Primary intradural extraosseous Ewing sarcoma of the spine: case report and literature review. 
  • Primary intramedullary melanocytoma of the spinal cord: case report. 
  • Progesterone is neuroprotective after acute experimental spinal cord trauma in rats. 
  • Prospective analysis of incidence and risk factors of dysphagia in spine surgery patients: comparison of anterior cervical, posterior cervical, and lumbar procedures. 
  • Pseudogout of the cervical and thoracic spine mimicking infection after lumbar fusion: case report. 
  • Racial disparities in outcomes of spinal surgery for lumbar stenosis. 
  • Reduction of postoperative lumbar hemilaminectomy pain with Marcaine. Technical note. 
  • Replacement of intervertebral discs in chimpanzees by silicone-dacron implants: a preliminary report. 
  • Risk factors for surgical site infection complicating laminectomy. 
  • Sagittal sinus thrombosis and leptomeningeal medulloblastoma. 
  • Shifting surgical site infection denominators and implications for National Health Safety Network reporting. 
  • Spinal Intradural Aneurysmal Bone Cyst: A Case Report. 
  • Spinal capillary hemangioma in infants: report of two cases and review of the literature. 
  • Surgery for spinal stenosis: long-term reoperation rates, health care cost, and impact of instrumentation. 
  • The role of concurrent fusion to prevent spinal deformity after intramedullary spinal cord tumor excision in children. 
  • The role of iatrogenic foraminal stenosis from lordotic correction in the development of C5 palsy after posterior laminectomy and fusion. 
  • The use of recombinant activated factor VII in three patients with central nervous system hemorrhages associated with factor VII deficiency. 
  • Therapeutic decision making in thoracolumbar spine trauma. 
  • Traumatic burst fracture in a patient with a lumbar artificial disc. 
  • Treatment of lumbar spinal stenosis by extensive unilateral decompression and contralateral autologous bone fusion: operative technique and results. 
  • Tumoral calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease mimicking a cervical spine neoplasm: case report. 
  • Two-Level Minimally Invasive Lumbar Laminectomy and Foraminotomy: 2-Dimensional Operative Video. 
  • Validation of an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision Code Algorithm for Identifying Chiari Malformation Type 1 Surgery in Adults. 
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  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology