“…Since its introduction by DEREYMAKER and MU-LIER [11], CLOWARD [7,8,9], SMITH and ROBINSON [30] and BAILEY and BADGLEY [1] the ventral approach for the operative treatment of compression syndromes of the cervical spine has been generally accepted [15,16,17,18,19,20,21,24,25,28,29,30,31,32,33].…”