see [[Roy-Camille classification]] The first [[case]] of a total en bloc [[spondylectomy]] was published by Bertil Stener in [[1971]] in a case of [[chondrosarcoma]] of T6–T8 in a 49-year-old farmer ((Stener B. Total spondylectomy in chondrosarcoma arising from the seventh thoracic vertebra. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 1971 May;53(2):288-95. PubMed PMID: 4931082. )). [[Raymond Roy-Camille]] further standardized and popularized the technique ((Roy-Camille R, Mazel Ch, Sailant G, Lapresle Ph, et al. Treatment of malignant tumors of the spine with posterior instrumentation. In: Sundaresan N, Schmidek HH, Schiller AL, et al., editors. Tumors of the spine: diagnosis and clinical management. Philadelphia: Saunders; 1990. pp. 473–487.)) ((Roy-Camille R, Mazel Ch. Vertebrectomy through an enlarged posterior approach for tumors and malunions. In: Bridwell KH, Wald RL, editors. The text book of spinal surgery. Philadelphia: Lippincott; 1991. pp. 1245–1256.)) ((Roy-Camille R, Saillant G, Bisserie M, Judet T, Hautefort E, Mamoudy P. Total excision of thoracic vertebrae. Rev Chir Orthop Reparatrice Appar Mot. 1981;67:421–430.)) ((Roy-Camille R, Saillant G, Mazel Ch, Monpierre H. Total vertebrectomy as treatment of malignant tumors of the spine. Chir Organi Mov. 1990;75:94–96.)) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246991542_The_contribution_of_Raymond_Roy-Camille_to_spine_surgery