Fig. 2From: Clinical outcome and safety study of a newly developed instrumented French-door cervical laminoplasty techniqueSubperiosteal exposure of lamina and lateral masses with preservation of articular joints. Tips of spinous processes are excised (a); a phantom rod is used as template and the miniplate is contoured accordingly (b); the screw holes in the lateral masses are prepared before performing the decompression (c)Back to article page