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. 2016 Nov 28;475(12):2893–2904. doi: 10.1007/s11999-016-5175-7

Table 1.

Percentage of patients undergoing each procedure type

Procedure Number of patients Percent of patients
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion 18,464 21
Anterior lumbar fusion 3324 4
Cervical laminectomy 2782 3
Cervical laminotomy 1701 2
Cervical corpectomy 1828 2
Lumbar laminectomy 17,545 20
Lumbar laminotomy 24,359 28
Posterior lumbar fusion 15,552 18
Posterior cervical fusion 1535 2
Thoracic fusion 712 1
Thoracic laminectomy 669 1

Total number of patients = 88,471.