BACKGROUND The Halo Vest method is a non-invasive treatment of cervical spine fractures. It is successfully applied in adults, which is supported by numerous studies, but has rarely been used among children and young people. There is little published research in this field. The aim of the paper is to present the effectiveness of Halo Vest external fixation in children and to evaluate the compli...

Objective: The morbidity and mortality are high for traumatic upper cervical spine instability with cervico-medullary compression. In a clinical retrospective study, the clinical and radiographic results of occipitocervical (OC) fusion using posterior atlantoaxial transpedicular screw fixation in 12 patients with traumatic upper cervical spine instability was reviewed. Methods: Twelve patients ...

Background: Ganglioneuroma is a rare benign tumor, which is usually located in the posterior mediastinum and retroperitoneum. Occasionally, it involves the paraspinal region with intraspinal extension and becomes dumbbell shaped. Dumbbell ganglioneuromas rarely affect the lumbar spine, and only nine cases of dumbbell lumbar ganglioneuromas have been reported previously. Case presentation: We ar...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to explore surgical strategies for effectively treating spine fractures in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and investigate the postoperative outcomes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 9 patients with AS that was complicated by spine fractures, who underwent surgery at our spine and spinal cord clinic between 2005 and 2012. The surgical methods inc...

Odontoid fractures are relatively common upper cervical spine injuries, comprising up to 20% of cervical spine fractures. The treatment of odontoid fractures remains controversial, and is evolving with the advent of new fixation methods. Recently, many endoscopically-assisted procedures have been performed for various types of spinal surgeries to minimize invasiveness and to avoid soft tissue i...

Tuberculosis of the spine is a very frequent case in the practice of spine surgeons in the developing world, and is set to pose a challenge to the developed world in near future. Only anterior surgery seems to be falling short in potential for correction of the kyphotic deformity as well as of preventing gradual collapse later on. Posterior fixation has shown an excellent potential for correcti...

Vertebral artery injury (VAI) is a rare but serious complication of cervical spine surgery. Instrumented posterior surgery of the upper cervical spine places the vertebral artery at the highest risk of injury. However, VAI during removal of cervical internal fixation is really rare and unexpected. We present a case of 52-year-old male patient who suffered VAI during removal of C1-C2 pedicle scr...

Most spine fusion procedures involve the use of prosthetic fixation devices combined with autologous bone grafts rather than biological treatment. We had shown that spine fusion could be achieved by injection of bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP-2)-expressing mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into the paraspinal muscle. In this study, we hypothesized that posterior spinal fusion achieved using gene...

The treatment of pathologies in the thoracic spine is a challenge. periodic failure pedicle screw insertion and anatomical variations make search for an alternative to screws surgery necessary. interlaminar crossed well-known secure method fusion cervical spine, there used be insufficient clinical data support this technique, until now. We demonstrate initial series 10 cases treated with associ...