Fig. 3From: Clinical outcome and safety study of a newly developed instrumented French-door cervical laminoplasty techniqueThe bone graft is fixed to the contoured miniplate, a 12–15-mm-wide bone graft is used (a); bilateral bone troughs are prepared and spinous processes split in the midline (b); spinous processes are gently opened on both sides and the miniplates with grafts fitted in place (c)Back to article page