annulotomy
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annulotomy (plural annulotomies)
- (surgery) An incision between intervertebral discs to allow decompression
- 2015 August 19, Chaoliang Lv et al., “Comparative effectiveness of two different interbody fusion methods for transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion: cage versus morselized impacted bone grafts”, in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders[1], volume 16, :
- An annulotomy was created and subtotal discectomy was performed.