# Laminectomy - Author: **Johns Hopkins Medicine** - Document Tags: [[laminectomy]] - [URL link](https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/laminectomy)  ## Highlights - a surgeon removes part or all of the vertebral bone ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j0ca23gf02svdd6x5xjq1amt)) --- - helps ease pressure on the spinal cord or the nerve roots that may be caused by injury, herniated disk, narrowing of the canal (spinal stenosis), or tumors. A laminectomy is considered only after other medical treatments have not worked. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j0ca2f3y0apedxcmq4wvpwk0)) ---