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Expansive Open-Door Laminoplasty
2003Until 1968, when Kirita [1] devised a sophisticated technique for extensive laminectomy in which the laminae were thinned and divided at the midline with a high-speed drill, both patients and surgeons had suffered from unpredictable results with conventional laminectomy.
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C1 Posterior Arch Laminoplasty
2019In most cases with C1–C2 instability, the spinal cord can satisfactorily be decompressed by simple reduction of C1–C2 subluxation. However, adequate decompression may not be obtainable in a small number of cases for several reasons. If cord compression and myelopathy symptoms are severe in such cases, direct decompression by resection or laminoplasty ...
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Anatomical Knowledge Required for Laminoplasty
2003In all four-legged animals, the extensors are dominant over the flexors in the neck in order to maintain the head in a horizontal position. In the human neck, the extensors are also dominant. A cross section of the human neck (Fig. 1) shows that 70% of the muscles present are posterior to the rotational axis of anteroposterior flexion movements.
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