An operation called a decompressive laporectomy may need to be performed.

Age should not be a factor in deciding whether to have decompressive laminectomy.

The aim of decompressive craniectomy is to reduce this pressure.

Spinal fusion may be done at the same time as decompressive laminectomy.

She underwent a successful decompressive laminectomy with resolution of her symptoms.

Most often this was a decompressive laminectomy without fusion.

The main type of surgery for spinal stenosis is decompressive laminectomy.

Treatment involves removal of the etiologic mass and decompressive craniectomy.

Serious complications can follow microsurgical decompressive operations, even when performed by experienced surgeons.

Decompressive laminectomy is the most common type of surgery done to treat spinal stenosis.

The reported success rates for decompressive surgery for stenosis vary greatly in the literature.

In the flurry of action and the rumble of decompressive explosion, he only knew it wasn't Maria.

Infections such as meningitis or brain abscess can occur after decompressive craniectomy.

Spinal fusion may help to stabilize sections of the spine that have been treated with decompressive laminectomy.

The study investigators found that decompressive craniectomy was associated with worse functional outcomes, as measured by a standard metric, than best medical care.

Decompressive therapies (i.e. manual mobilization, mechanical traction) may also help alleviate pain.

This is the only prospective randomised controlled study to date to support the potential benefit of decompressive craniectomy following traumatic brain injury.

Kocher later also found that decompressive craniectomy was an effective method to lower ICP.

In some cases, spinal fusion (arthrodesis) may be done at the same time to help stabilize sections of the spine treated with decompressive laminectomy.

As a last resort, decompressive laminectomy may be attempted to relieve pain symptoms and remove the abnormally enlarged portions of bone.

A study from Georgetown University reported on one-hundred patients who had undergone decompressive surgery for lumbar stenosis between 1980 and 1985.

Decompressive craniectomy is also used to manage major strokes, associated with "malignant" edema and intracranial hypertension.

Varying the spine's posture enables the decompressive pulling forces to reach into spinal areas and tissues that basic linear decompression misses.

Decompressive laminectomy remains the mainstay of operative treatment for stenosis of the spine, whether it is combined with fusion or not.

Doctors removed one-quarter of his skull to relieve the pressure of his swelling brain during an operation known as a decompressive craniectomy.