… Implantation of a disc prosthesis in the cervical spine is … posterior foraminotomy [3, 4, 9]. It
preserves segment mobility without additional stabilisation. In addition to lateral disc herniation, …

… , such as the anterior or posterior foraminotomy and diskectomy, may be another option for
patients with foraminal soft-disk herniations [5–13]. The posterior cervical foraminotomy and …

… Anterior cervical decompression and fusion is the standard procedure for operation of cervical
disc herniations with radicular arm pain. Mobility-preserving posterior foraminotomy is the …

… 100 patients (61 female, 39 male) who were operated between April 2003 and January 2005
in full-endoscopic posterior foraminotomy for lateral cervical disc herniation were included …

… pathology (soft disc herniation/spondylosis) is … posterior cervical foraminotomy (PCF) at our
department between 2006 and 2013 for unilateral mono-segmental lateral soft disc herniation…

… fragment6), and it has been widely adopted for treating of cervical … , total disc replacement
(TDR) and posterior cervical foraminotomy (… Posterolateral soft disc herniation with unilateral …

… The mortality rate for posterior operations of lateral cervical disc herniation is very low; in
most series, as in the present study, it was nil 24' 36, 39, 42, 53, 54. FagerlO reported two …

… The percentages of operated disc levels and the distribution of patients are given in Table 2.
The … of soft disc protrusion and 39 cases of hard disc protrusion. Foraminotomy without disc …

… These authors performed an anterolateral foraminotomy in addition to the formal anterior
cervical discectomy in four patients with lateral foraminal disc herniation. Bone graft fusion was …

… fusion to posterior laminotomy-foraminotomy for the management of soft cervical disc herniation.
… horseshoe graft) while 16 patients underwent posterior laminotomy-foraminotomy. The …