Traditionally, the surgical management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis consisted of decompressive laminectomy alone. In 1985, Lombardi and colleagues [7] reported the results of 47 ...

The patient experienced mild RLS symptoms until 2002, when she underwent an L4-5 decompression laminectomy. About 2 weeks after surgery, her RLS symptoms worsened; and were further exacerbated in ...

“The laminectomy alleviates those symptoms by cutting away some of the bone,” Dr. Farjoodi says. It’s a common procedure, but it is considered a major surgery because of the proximity to ...

These include: the decompressive laminectomy; spinal fusion; lumbar microdiscectomy; anterior cervical discectomy; vertebroplasty and percutaneous kyphoplasty. The real revolution in the field of ...