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.

in which a portion of the posterior aspect of the spinal canal is removed in a procedure known as laminectomy, and the anterior approach, in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining ...

Surgical approaches to the cervical spine are usually anterior or posterior. Currently, anterior cervical discectomy is the most common procedure used. This may be performed alone or with the addition ...