I wish to offer an alternative theory for the temporary paraplegia referenced in the letter to the editor rather than that of air entrapment. (Dalmau-Carola J. An old complication of a new technique: Pneumorrhachis from caudal epidural pulsed radiofrequency. Pain Physician: November/December 2014; 17:E783-E806). A 70-year-old woman with chronic lower back pain radiating to the left lower extrem...

A never-smoking 22-year-old male with no past medical history presented to the emergency department with sudden onset of sharp central chest pain and right-sided neck discomfort. There was no history of trauma or bronchitis. There was no history of air travel, allergen exposure or illicit drug use. He had consumed alcohol the night before presentation but had not vomited. Clinically, he had rig...

abstract background: cervical cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy and is the major cause of death from gynecologic cancer worldwide. the majority of cervical cancers develop through a series of gradual, precancerous lesions. screening asymptomatic women with regular pap smears allows diagnosis of the readily treatable preinvasive phase. we performed this study to determine...

background with the advent of hystroscopic surgery, abnormalities confined to the uterine cavity such as endometrial polyps, submucous myomas, uterine septae and synechia , were supposed to be treated effectively. diagnostic hysteroscopy is the gold standard for investigating the intrauterine diseases as it allows for biopsy and removal of lesions. objectives forty premenopausal women without t...

our case was a 48-year-old man with cervical pain radiatingto the upper limbs. imaging showed an intradural tumor with extradural component encasing the vertebral artery.thetumor diagnosed asa neurinomaand had been removed surgically.the post operationmagnetic resonance imagingshowed that the tumor was completely removed andthe vertebral arterywas intact at theentire length.the goal of surgery ...

abstract our patient was a 43-year-old woman with a suboccipital headache and pain in the upper cervical region from 3 years ago with a progressive generalized weakness in the last 3 months. neuroimaging study showed a dumbell shaped lesion with compression of the spinal cord in the cervical region that was identified as a neurinoma. the tumor had been completely removed by surgery but after th...