Relationship of actual laminoplasty opening size and increment of the cross-sectional area based on single-door cervical laminoplasy

Autor: Xiao-Jiang Yang, Tian Ruijun, Xing Su, Yang Zhang, Wei Lei, Hu Shanbo
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Medicine
ISSN: 0025-7974
DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000010216
Popis: Background: Amounts of clinic research have been performed to investigate the increment of cross-sectional area in single-door cervical laminoplasty (SDCL). However, no one has taken the effects of surgery drill into consideration. Methods: A mathematical model was built to investigate the relation of actual laminoplasty opening size (LOS), the transverse canal diameter (TCD), and the increment of cross-sectional area in SDCL). The model was based on geometric analysis on deformation of spinal canal; the relation was derived and characterized as: , where a is the TCD, b the actual LOS, c the size of mini-plate, and d is diameter of the surgery drill bit. In the equation, the related variables would be measured to estimate the increment of cross-sectional area before the surgery. In the current research, 25 patients authorized to use their CT scans of C3∼C7 as the subject samples. Results: The effects of surgery SDCL were very significant; for each patient, the cross-sectional area was enlarged dramatically after the surgery (P .05), which confirmed the reliability of the modeling equation. Conclusions: Before the SDCL, increment of the cross-sectional area can be estimated by the above-mentioned modeling equation with a high-level reliability. This method ensures the optimum selection of mini-plate before operation for each patient.
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