A spinal surgery has evolved, new techniques have been developed to address complex pathologies through smaller anatomical corridors, leading to better outcomes. Surgical procedures of the spine benefit from fine motor coordination, a highly experienced surgeon, and the best available technology,5,9,45 and it is clear that surgical robotic systems have established a foothold in medicine as an e...

This study investigated the surgical outcomes of spinal surgery for degenerative disorder in patients undergoing hemodialysis. Forty patients maintained on hemodialysis who underwent spinal surgery were reviewed. Of the 17 cases of cervical surgery, anterior fusion was performed in 3 patients, laminoplasty in 12, and posterior fusion in 2. Of the 29 cases of lumber surgery, decompression surger...

Background and Objective: Deprenyl is a drug for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, where the dopaminergic neurons are the target of this drug. Several reports also documented that deprenyl has an effect on the sensory and motor neurons. There are some reports about the mode of action of deprenyl on m...

Spinal cord Sarcoidosis was first described by Longcope in 1941 (Longcope, 1941), and since then, spinal cord involvement has been reported in less than 10% of patients with neurosarcoidosis (Bogousslavsky et al., 1982, Fried et al., 1993) Spinal cord sarcoidosis is a chronic, granulomatous, systemic inflammatory disease, although precise understanding of the pathogenesis remains unclear, and m...

Background & Importance: Acute autonomic system impairment can be dangerous and life-threatening, and a clinician should be aware of its occurrence possibility. According to the anatomy of this system, spinal cord lesions could disturb its function. There are many reports of autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord i njuries especially spinal cord trauma. Case Presentation: A 28 year-o...

STUDY DESIGN A prospective analysis evaluating neurologic outcome after early versus late surgery for cervical spinal cord trauma. OBJECTIVES The study was conducted to determine whether neurologic and functional outcome is improved in traumatic cervical spinal cord-injured patients (C3-T1, American Spinal Injury Association grades A-D) who had early surgery (<72 hours after spinal cord injur...

A 51-year-old man underwent surgery for ossification of the ligamentum flavum at the T9-T10 levels. Intraoperatively, the dura was opened unintentionally and a subcutaneous suction drain was placed. The patient complained of severe headache and nausea postoperatively. Brain computed tomography obtained 3 days after the surgery demonstrated remote cerebellar hemorrhage and hydrocephalus. Subocci...

Dr. M. Timothy Hresko Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Children’s Hospital 300 Longwood Avenue, Hunnewell 2 Boston, MA 02115 617-355-6617 [email protected] INTRODUCTION Video-assisted thoracoscopic (VAT) spinal surgery has become a popular approach to the anterior thoracic spine. VAT spinal surgery has benefits over the traditional open thoracotomy approach in that the scar is les...