The patients with intensive pain caused by the vertebra body fracture were treated by application of low viscosity cement (LVC), (Vertebroplastic, DePuy) and high viscosity cement (HVC), (Confidence, DePuy,) into the body, by means of diascopy through unilateral transpendicular approach. Application of LVC was made in 75 patients, on 109 vertebrae, and HVC was applied in 12 patients on 14 verte...

This article describes a case of a giant cell tumor that expanded into the thoracic cavity and through the spinal canal into the vertebrae. A 36-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of back pain and dyspnea. Plain chest radiographs showed a huge mass accompanied by right pleural effusion. The mass involved the 12th thoracic spine, and the spinal cord was severely compressed. The tumor ...

The yellow ligament, or Ligamentum flavum, is the ligament that connects lamina arches of two adjacent vertebrae in spine [1,2]. This and has elasticity [3,4]. flavum ossification an uncommon cause pressure on cervical cord [3] [5-7]. commonly occurs thoracic which can myelopathic symptoms patient [8,9]. main this problem unknown, but it when soft tissue calcified causes narrowing spinal canal ...

The precise and accurate segmentation of the vertebral column is essential in the diagnosis and treatment of various orthopedic, neurological, and oncological traumas and pathologies. Segmentation is especially challenging in the presence of pathology such as vertebral compression fractures. In this paper, we propose a method to produce segmentations for osteoporotic compression fractured verte...

Introduction Osteoid osteoma (OO) is a benign lesion accounting for approximately 12% of benign skeletal neoplasms [1]. OO maybe in different localizations involving mainly long bones of the extremities and posterior elements of the vertebrae, mostly at the thoracic and lumbar region. Localization in the vertebral body is unusual [2]. In this article a case of OO localized in the thoracic verte...

Why do all mammals, except for sloths and manatees, have exactly seven cervical vertebrae? In other vertebrates and other regions, the vertebral number varies considerably. We investigated whether natural selection constrains the number of cervical vertebrae in humans. To this end, we determined the incidence of cervical ribs and other homeotic vertebral changes in radiographs of deceased human...

The vertebrate nuchal ligament is a large elastic structure in the dorsal cervical midline between the occiput, the cervical vertebrae and the cranial thoracic spinous processes, which helps to support the head and neck of the horse (Gellman and Bertram, 2002a). The nuchal ligament consists of funicular (cord-like) and lamellar (sheet-like) parts (Dyson, 2003; Gellman and Bertram, 2002a). The f...

Chondroid chordoma is an extremely rare tumour with an annual incidence of around 0.1 cases per 100,000population. Involvement of the thoracic vertebrae may be present in 2-5% of cases. Definitive diagnosis usually requires a suitable distinction between this and other mesenchymal tumours such as chondrosarcomas, so immunohistochemical analysis is virtually mandatory. In spite of its slow-growi...

We managed to establish three-dimensional digitized visible model of human thoracic structures and to provide morphological data for imaging diagnosis and thoracic and cardiovascular surgery. With Photoshop software, the contour line of lungs and mediastinal structures including heart, aorta and its ramus, azygos vein, superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, thymus, esophagus, diaphragm, phreni...

Sacral agenesis belongs to spectrum of aplastic vertebral malformations ranging from agenesis of coccyx to lower thoracic vertebrae and the term sacral agenesis has been used synonymously with caudal regression syndrome. Higher the defect, severe is the neurological deficit. Mangeau and Leclaire described a patient with ninth thoracic vertebra as the lowest segment(l). Sacral agenesis is more c...