Prior animal models have shown that rats sustaining 3-second immediate spinal cord compression had significantly better functional recovery and smaller lesion volumes than rats subjected to compression times of 1 hour, 6 hours, 3 weeks, and 10 weeks after spinal cord injury. We compare locomotor rating scales and spinal cord histopathology after 3 seconds and 10 minute compression times. . Ten ...

Aim: To know the demographics of the patients most commonly involved by metastatic cord compression in Kashmir and to find the commonest primary organ to metastasize to spine causing cord compression. Methods: A hospital-based 10-year retro-prospective study was carried out in the Department of Neurosurgery of Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura from July 2002 to June 2012, whic...

The aim of this study was to compare the reduction of spinal cord compression after surgical treatment of dogs with acute thoracolumbar intervertebral disc (IVD) extrusion achieved using hemilaminectomy versus mini-hemilaminectomy techniques. This was a prospective randomized study with client-owned dogs presented with acute IVD extrusion that were allocated to surgical treatment using hemilami...

Three techniques to produce experimental spinal cord injuries in the rat are compared; 1) the weight dropping method, 2) the aneurysm clip compression method and 3) the extradural balloon compression method. In principle, different forces were used in technique one, while a constant force for different durations is maintained in techniques two and three. The relationship between these different...

Cervical nerve root injury commonly leads to pain. The duration of an applied compression has been shown to contribute to both the onset of persistent pain and also the degree of spinal cellular and molecular responses related to nociception that are produced. This thesis uses a rat model of a transient cervical nerve root compression to study how the duration of an applied compression modulate...

Arachnoid web is a rare disease entity that can cause progressive myelopathy and most often develops at the upper thoracic level. Its pathophysiology unclear, but may be associated with degeneration of septum posticum in dorsal subarachnoid space, which alters flow cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) subsequently leads to cord compression syringomyelia. It presents pain, paresthesia, extremity weakness. ...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. PURPOSE We present a series of 50 patients with tuberculous cord compression who were offered systematic non-surgical treatment, and thereby, the author proposes that clinico-radiological soft tissue cord compression is not an emergency indication for surgery. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Spinal cord compression whether clinical or radiological has usually been bel...

BACKGROUND A rare cause of spinal cord compression is spinal arachnoid cysts. Symptoms are caused by spinal cord compression, however, asymptomatic patients have been also reported. Treatment options depend upon symptom severity and clinical course. CASE DESCRIPTION We report the case of a 47-year-old patient who developed an intramedullary arachnoid cyst after removal of an intradural extram...

A rat model study was performed to evaluate the effects of compression of the thoracic spinal cord. Dorsal screw compression of the thoracic spinal cord up to 50% canal diameter was created at T5 (Group A), T5 and T11 (Group B), and T5 and T8 (Group C). Clinical grading (Tarlov criteria), sensory evoked and motor evoked potentials, horse raddish peroxidase neural transport, and microangiography...