Cervical Corpectomy: The Surgery That Relieves Spinal Cord Pressure

by Chester John Donnally, III, M.D | 4 years ago

This is a patient of mine that needed a C5 corpectomy and anterior cervical fusion from C4 to C6! They are doing fantastic! A cervical corpectomy is a surgery where the spine surgeon will remove the part of the vertebral body in front of the spinal cord. This is done when the bone spurs or disc herniation is behind the large column of bone, as opposed to at the level of the disc space (more common).