Surgical Treatment of Vascular Intramedullary Spinal Cord Lesions

Neurological Outcome after Surgical Treatment of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors

OBJECTIVE Recently, surgical outcomes of patients with intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT) have been improved due to advances of medicine. The purposes of our study were to evaluate the recent neurological outcomes after surgical treatment of IMSCTs. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 69 patients who underwent surgical treatment for IMSCT in our hospital between 1998 and 2013. Patient'...

Magnetic resonance imaging of intramedullary spinal cord lesions

Modified classification of spinal cord vascular lesions.

The literature on spinal vascular malformations contains a great deal of confusing terminology. Some of the nomenclature is inconsistent with the lesions described. Based on the experience of the senior author (R.F.S.) in the treatment of more than 130 spinal cord vascular lesions and based on a thorough review of the relevant literature, the authors propose a modified classification system for...

Intramedullary spinal cord tumors

Comparison of the incidence of the various types of spinal tumors in infancy and childhood to other age groups reveals significant differences, similar to the brain tumors. Compared with intramedullary tumors in adult patients (16%), the incidence of intramedul1ary bIastomas is higher in children and young adults (1-16 years) (25%). Intramedullary tumors become prevalently manifest as gliomas (...

Intramedullary spinal cord abscess

We report a patient with a chronic intramedullary spinal cord abscess who suffered an episode of acute meningitis due to rupture of the abscess into the subarachnoid space. Intramedullary spinal cord abscesses are rare; to date only about 65 cases have been described.' We report a case of intramedullary thoracic spinal cord abscess. To our knowledge this is the first case in which an episode of...