Table 8.
Cervical ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
| Year | Posterior decompression |
Anterior decompression |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Method | Author | Method | |
| 1972 | Nagashima | Laminectomy | ||
| 1976 | Kirita | Laminectomy | Sako | Corpectomy |
| 1976 | Yamaura | Corpectomy | ||
| 1977 | Manabe | Corpectomy | ||
| 1977 | Kamikozuru | Corpectomy | ||
| 1978 | Kataoka | Laminoplasty | Watanabe | Corpectomy |
| 1979 | Hirabayashi | Laminoplasty | ||
| Microsurgery | ||||
| 1980 | Abe | Corpectomy | ||
| 1982 | Kurokawa | Laminoplasty | ||
| 1984 | Kawai | Laminoplasty | ||
| 1987 | Kojima | Corpectomy | ||
| 1994 | Obara | Anterolateral vertebrotomy | ||
| 1995 | Nagashima | Laminoplasty | ||
| 1996 | Nakagawa | Corpectomy | ||
| 1997 | Igarashi · Koyama | Laminoplasty | Mizuno·Nakagawa | Corpectomy |
| 1997 | Morimoto | Laminoplasty | Hida·Abe | Corpectomy |
| 1977 | Kojima·Waga | Corpectomy | ||
| 1999 | Takayasu | Anterolateral vertebrotomy | ||
| 2001 | Nishiura | Anterolateral vertebrectomy | ||