vertebral corpectomy

Indications

• intraspinal lesion
  • spinal cord neoplasm
  • spinal cord compression

Procedure

• resection of vertebral body
• often in conjunction with discectomy
• vertebral fusion follows corpectomy

More general terms

• ostectomy
• spinal surgery; vertebral surgery

More specific terms

• vertebral corpectomy with decompression of spinal cord
• vertebral corpectomy, cervical
• vertebral corpectomy, lumbar
• vertebral corpectomy, thoracic