This animation depicts an emergent cervical C3-C6 laminectomy decompression and fusion. The surgical steps include the following; posterior incision site over C3-C6, dissection of paraspinal musculature, preoperative MRI depicting multiple levels of disc herniations, laminectomy, removal of ligament, placement of pedicle screws into C3, C4, C5 & C6, decortication of lateral masses and facet joints, placement of rods, placement of mixed bone graft fusion and crosslink, postoperative x-rays of cervical spine with hardware.
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