The team contributed to the world’s first reported successful implantion of a motion-preserving cervical joint after an operation to remove vertebrae, known as a cervical corpectomy. The neck ...
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.
At surgery, she had C4/C5 corpectomy and fusion with iliac crest graft and anterior cervical plates. “Following her discharge a month afterward with no significant neurological or motor ...