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provide (a city) with a canal (同)canalize, canalise
long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion
of or relating to or constituting vertebrae

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Difference in canal encroachment by the fusion mass between anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with bone autograft and anterior plating, and stand-alone cage.

Lee SE1, Chung CK2, Kim CH1.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia.J Clin Neurosci.2016 Jul;29:121-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2015.10.039. Epub 2016 May 24.
We conducted a prospective randomized study comparing stand-alone cage and bone autograft and plate implants in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT01011569). Our interim analysis showed autologous bone graft with plating was superior to a stand-alone cage for segment
PMID 27234609

Migrating bullet in the thecal sac at the level of the conus medullaris without neurological deficit.

Koban O1, Çal H2, Ekşi MŞ3, Özcan-Ekşi EE4, Öğrenci A2.
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia.J Clin Neurosci.2016 Jul;29:185-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2016.01.008. Epub 2016 Feb 23.
Bullets can lodge in the organs, blood vessels or thecal sac. To our knowledge, a migrating bullet at the level of the conus medullaris without neurological deficit has never been reported. We present our patient along with a discussion of bullet migration in the spinal canal and its mechanisms, dia
PMID 26921138

Nakamura S1, Shibayama M, Ito F, Miura Y.
Clinical spine surgery.Clin Spine Surg.2016 Jun 3. [Epub ahead of print]
STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective comparative series study OBJECTIVE:: To describe a new angled chisel (NAC) that facilitates the osteotomy in Microendoscopic decompressive laminotomy (MEDL), and to analyze the clinical and radiological outcomes using the tool.SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: MEDL for lumbar
PMID 27261707