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Oblique corpectomy

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Pathology and surgery around the vertebral artery

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The technique of oblique corpectomy has been reported for the first time in 1993 to access lesions developed in the anterior part of the spinal canal (1). Since 1992, the technique of multilevel oblique corpectomy (MOC) has been applied at Lariboisière Hospital for the surgical treatment of spondylotic myeloradiculopathy and a first series has been published in 1999 (2). From this time, several teams have confirmed favorable outcome (3–6), through retrospective but also prospective works (5), and indications have been enlarged to ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (4, 7).

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Bruneau, M., Yasuda, M., George, B. (2011). Oblique corpectomy. In: Pathology and surgery around the vertebral artery. Springer, Paris. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-2-287-89787-0_18

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