Spinal Disk Lesions

Spinal Arteriovenous Lesions

Spinal Expanding Lesions Extradural Spinal Arachnoid Cysts

The clinical features of benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis (CwG) were studied retrospectively in 62 patients hospitalized (Jan 2000-March 2006) at St Mary's Hospital, Kurume City, Japan. Viral infections confirmed in 71% of fecal specimens were rotavirus in 30 patients, norovirus in 9, sapovirus in 2, adenovirus in 2, and coxsackievirus A4 in 1. Age of patients with norovirus (16.7 +...

Unusual Spinal Dysraphic Lesions

Human tail and multiple spinal dysraphism are unusual congenital malformations. Human tail appeared as a prominent lesion from the lumbosacrococcygeal region, generally without connection between the tail and the neurospinal axis. Spinal dysraphisms are usually isolated, reaching 0.038% of incidence of multiple spinal dysraphisms in the same child. There were three cases described of unusual sp...

Lumbar disk degeneration in spinal dysraphism.

Eight of the 22 patients had spina bifida aperta, and 14 had spina bifida occulta. These included eight cases with repaired myelomeningocele, seven with an intraspinal lipoma and tethering of cord , three with dermal sinuses, and one with diastematomyelia. Bulging and low signal intensity of the nucleus pulposus on T2-weighted images are the criteria for disk degeneration [1 , 2] . In our study...

Spinal lesions in battered babies.

The case histories of five young children are presented to demonstrate the radiological appearances of trauma to the spine thought to be the result of maltreatment by either parent or guardian. Four of the children were admitted to hospital within a period of three years, all being under the age of two years.