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En bloc laminoplasty, i.e., the insertion of a bone graft between the lamina and the inferior articular process, is widely preferred to laminectomy for the treatment of cervical compression myelopathy. We are now applying a variation for other conditions. This procedure is the true laminoplasty, which was developed from the original en bloc laminoplasty [1] by Itoh and coworkers [2, 3]. It is a type of “open-door laminoplasty” [4, 5], which is generally regarded as a safe and effective procedure.
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Kato, Y. (2003). En Bloc Laminoplasty. In: Nakamura, K., Toyama, Y., Hoshino, Y. (eds) Cervical Laminoplasty. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53983-4_6
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