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- noun surgery Surgical removal of part of the vertebral body.
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Examples
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Some patients with spinal metastases are now candidates for minimally invasive procedures with bolder objectives such as corpectomy, in which the surgeon removes the entire vertebral body in front of the spinal canal to allow for removal of a cancerous tumor.
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Anterior corpectomy with posterolateral decompression and fusion succeeded in preventing progressive neurologic decline and maintaining quality of life.
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"anterior cervical corpectomy/discectomy and fusion, with bone graph and instrumentation."
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