Items tagged “spine”

Corpectomy refers to the removal of one or more vertebral bodies and is followed by spinal fusion.  Indication compressive myelopathy secondary to, for example, retrovertebral hypertrophic osteoarthritis, tumor, infection, severe trauma Contraindications multilevel corpectomy in patients wit...

Movements of the spine are possible due to intervertebral discs, and with the fulcrum of movement occurring primarily around the nucleus pulposus. Specialized motion occurs at the atlanto-occipital and atlantoaxial joints, which do not contain a disc. The spine (vertebral column) forms the cent...