STUDY DESIGN A retrospective observational study. OBJECTIVE We evaluated the prevalence and clinical characteristics of tandem spinal stenosis (TSS) in patients with cervical myelopathy including ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament of the cervical spine (C-OPLL). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Concurrent cervical and lumbar spinal canal stenosis is generally reported as TSS. Mos...

Four normal controls and 26 cases of Arnold-Chiari I malformations and/or syringomyelia were reviewed. The pathologic cases included five isolated Arnold-Chiari I malformations, nine communicating syringomyelia, five idiopathic syringomyelia, four posttraumatic syringomyelia, one syringomyelia with hemangioblastoma, and two postshunt syringomyelia. The objectives of this study were to compare t...

Case history A five-year-old, male, West Highland White Terrier was referred to the Small Animal Clinic of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences with a two month history of cervical pain and a proprioceptive deficit in the left thoracic limb. On survey radiography, narrowing of the fifthsixth cervical (C5-C6) intervertebral disc space was noted. The presumptive diagnosis was cervical disc extr...

The two most commonly used methods for obtaining crosstable lateral radiographs of the cervical spine are the conventional cross-table view (CCV) and the swimmer's view (SV). Shapiro [1) reported that another prone cross-table view, obtained with the shoulders elevated from the table, may facilitate visualization of the lower cervical spine. To our knowledge, this latter technique, which we cal...

Received January 25. 1983; accepted after revision August 3. 1983. On admission , CT of the cervical spine after intravenous administration of contrast material demonstrated an area of increased density in the center and to the right of the center of the cervical spinal canal that was believed to be pathologic (fig . 1 A). Reformatted coronal and sagittal images showed that the lesion extended ...

Main results 16 RCTs met the selection criteria; 1128 patients were assigned to long bed rest and 1083 patients were assigned to immediate mobilisation or short bed rest. Cervical or lumbar puncture was used for anaesthesia (5 trials), myelography (6 trials), and diagnostic reasons (5 trials). 11 trials compared bed rest with immediate mobilisation (0.5–24 h), and 5 trials compared longer bed r...

PURPOSE To determine the sensitivity of contrast MR versus myelography followed by CT in the detection of cerebrospinal fluid metastases in children with primary central nervous system tumors. METHODS Thirty-three patients who had primary central nervous system malignancies had spinal MR with gadolinium within 2 weeks of a myelogram followed by CT. MR technique included T1-weighted image sequ...

OBJECT The pathogenesis of syringomyelia in patients with an associated spinal lesion is incompletely understood. The authors hypothesized that in primary spinal syringomyelia, a subarachnoid block effectively shortens the length of the spinal subarachnoid space (SAS), reducing compliance and the ability of the spinal theca to dampen the subarachnoid CSF pressure waves produced by brain expansi...

Metrizamide, a water-soluble iodinated contrast agent for myelography, has been widely used in the United States for more than 4 years . Although acute generalized encephalopathy with confusion has been recog nized as a complication of metrizamide myelography, aphasia, with the connotation of focality that it entails, has seldom been reported [1, 2]. We describe two patients with a transient mo...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the clinical signs, diagnostic and surgical findings, and outcome in dogs with spinal epidural empyema (SEE). STUDY DESIGN Retrospective study. ANIMALS Seven dogs. METHODS Dogs with SEE between 1992 and 2001 were identified from a computerized medical record system. Inclusion criteria were: neurologic examination, vertebral column radiographs, myelography, antimi...