BACKGROUND Cervical (C)-spine clearance protocols exist both to identify traumatic injury and to expedite rigid collar removal. Computed tomography (CT) of the C-spine in trauma patients facilitates the removal of immobilization collars in patients who are neurologically intact, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become an indispensable adjunct for evaluating trauma patients with neurolog...

BACKGROUND Imaging plays the key role in diagnosing and staging of CE. The description of CE-specific imaging features and the WHO CE cyst classification is based on ultrasound. The reproducibility of the ultrasound-defined features of CE cysts is variable in MR- and CT-imaging. This is of particular importance for cysts that are not accessible by US and because of the increasing availability a...

PURPOSE Epithelial cysts of the iris may be primary or secondary. The management of secondary, posttraumatic iris cysts is often challenging. The purpose of this work is to report the successful surgical management of a post-traumatic iris cyst. CASE REPORT A 38 year-old man presented with an iris cyst associated with epithelial downgrowth and total cataract, six years after sustaining a pene...

OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of clinically diagnosable post-traumatic syringomyelia (PTS). METHODS A population of 815 consecutive patients with traumatic spinal cord injuries was studied between January 1990 and December 1992. RESULTS Reviews of all records, full clinical evaluation, and thorough neurological examination of all patients disclosed 28 patients in whom PTS was confirm...

In extreme rarity. spinal cord compression may be caused by intradural extramedullary cysts. One of these rare cysts, the ependymal cyst originates. from ectopic ependymal fragments situated parallel to the central canal development and may be seen

BACKGROUND Brainstem networks are pivotal in sensory and motor function and in recovery following experimental spinal cord injury (SCI). OBJECTIVE To quantify neurodegeneration and its relation to clinical impairment in major brainstem pathways and nuclei in traumatic SCI. METHODS Quantitative MRI data of 30 chronic traumatic SCI patients (15 with tetraplegia and 15 with paraplegia) and 23 ...

Several laboratories have described the existence of undifferentiated precursor cells that may act like stem cells in the ependyma of the rodent spinal cord. However, there are reports showing that this region is occluded and disassembled in humans after the second decade of life, although this has been largely ignored or interpreted as a post-mortem artefact. To gain insight into the patency, ...

Dr. Wuilker Knoner Campos – Rua João Pio Duarte Silva 1206 88037-001 Florianópolis SC Brasil. Email: [email protected] Anterior cervical arachnoid cysts are rare lesions and despite of the large experience of the departments of neurosurgery worldwide, few cases in this localization have been reported. Most intradural arachnoid cysts are located in the thoracic region posterior to the spinal ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the occurrence and severity of traumatic brain injury in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional study with prospective neurological, neuropsychological and neuroradiological examinations and retrospective medical record review. PATIENTS Thirty-one consecutive, traumatic spinal cord injury patients on their first post-acute rehabilitation ...