Open AccessModified Open-Door Laminoplasty Using a Ceramic Spacer and Suture Fixation for Cervical Myelopathy
Author(s) -
Tomoyuki Ozawa,
Tomoaki Toyone,
Ryutaro Shiboi,
Kunimasa Inada,
Yasuhiro Oikawa,
Kazuhisa Takahashi,
Seiji Ohtori,
Gen Inoue,
Masayuki Miyagi,
Tetsuhiro Ishikawa,
Toshiyuki Shirahata,
Yoshifumi Kudo,
Kenji Inagaki
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
yonsei medical journal/yonsei medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.702
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1976-2437
pISSN - 0513-5796
DOI - 10.3349/ymj.2015.56.6.1651
Subject(s) - medicine , laminoplasty , lateral mass , surgery , myelopathy , neck pain , fixation (population genetics) , orthopedic surgery , fibrous joint , cervical spine , spinal cord , population , alternative medicine , environmental health , pathology , psychiatry
To introduce a new simple technique using suture anchors and ceramic spacers to stabilize the elevated laminae in open-door cervical laminoplasty. Although ceramic spacers were placed in the opened laminae and fixed with nylon threads in this series, it was occasionally difficult to fix the nylon threads to the lateral mass.