The objective of this study was to describe step by step our surgical technique of laminotomy and analyze our series with regard to spinal deformities (risk and predisposing factors), postoperative ...

Lumbar stenosis can be effectively treated using tubular unilateral laminotomy for bilateral decompression (ULBD). For multilevel stenosis, a multilevel ULBD through separate, alternating crossover ...

Lumbar radiculopathy due to impingement of nerve roots from facet hypertrophy and/or disc herniation can often coincide with vertebrogenic low back pain. This is demonstrated on MRI with foraminal ...

Background: Endoscopic lumbar interbody fusion is a new technology that is mostly used for single-segment and unilateral lumbar spine surgery. The purpose of this study is to introduce percutaneous ...

HSS is the #1 orthopedic hospital in the U.S. and a national leader in rheumatology. This content was created by our physicians and experts. Decompression neck surgery to relieve a compressed spinal ...

The Mets announced on Thursday that third baseman David Wright underwent a laminotomy procedure on his lower back. Wright also released a statement: Throughout this entire rehab process, I have been ...

In the published article, there was an error in the article type. Instead of “Review”, it should be “Original Research”. The authors apologize for this error ...

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 ...

Laminotomy (cervical code 63020 or lumbar code 63030, with the add-on code for each additional level as +63035; unilateral): This is the most common spine procedure performed. In these procedures, ...