Malignant tumours of the spine present special problems in management because of the danger of spinal cord involvement. In these cases operation may have a double role, in diagnosis and in treatment. There is in the literature little mention of lateral approaches in the treatment of such lesions, so an account of our experience may prove of interest. Whatever influence radiotherapy and chemothe...

OBJECTIVE Primary spinal cord tumours are rare causes of low back pain but can be a significant cause of morbidity if undiagnosed and untreated. The following is a case of a young male patient presenting with low back pain and radicular symptoms caused by myxopapillary ependymoma. CLINICAL FEATURES A nineteen year old male presented to an orthopaedic surgeon with a long history of back pain. ...

the classification and imaging appearances of vascular masses of the head and neck are reviewed. the radiological appearances of congenital vascular masses (infantile haemangiomas and other congenital vascular tumours, high-flow and low-flow vascular malformations), acquired vascular masses (benign and malignant tumours, non-neoplastic lesions) and other hypervascular masses are described and i...

Neurological deterioration sometimes follows removal of cerebro-spinal fluid by lumbar puncture below a spinal block caused by a tumour. Experience has shown that similar impaction of a spinal intradural tumour may occur following the draining of hydrocephalus. We have used the term "upward spinal coning " to describe this and report four cases in which impaction of an intradural metastasis occ...

background : thymoma and thymic carcinoma are relatively rare tumours of the anterior mediastinum. optimum treatment options for these tumours remain unresolved, although at present, a multimodality approach involving aggressive surgical resection, platinum-based combination chemotherapeutic interventions and radiotherapy represents the preferred therapeutic approach. 1-3 this study evaluates t...

with decompression of the spinal cord, is now widely used for the surgical management of infection, especially tuberculosis (Hodgson and Stock 1960), spinal tumours (Harrington 1981) and congenital spinal deformity (LeathermanandDickson1979). Therehasthusbeenan increasing interest in a direct surgical approach to vertebral bodies. Surgical approaches which allow exposure of the anterior aspect ...

A series of twenty-nine patients with cord cavitation were treated by syringoperitoneal shunt. Twenty-two of them showed improvement after operation, five were unchanged and two worsened. Operation was performed in patients with post-traumatic cystic myelopathy, idiopathic syringomyelia, intramedullary tumours associated with cysts, and patients who had developed cystic myelopathy in associatio...

Spinal chondroma is a rare benign tumor it accounts for 2.8% of bone tumours and 12% all tumours. 3.6% to 4% are located in the spine representing 10% chondromas. It can originate from vertebral bodies or posterior arch described patients between 5 78 years age [1]. We present clinical case 60 year old woman, who consulted dorso-thoracic pain around belt line was treated as gastroduodenal ulcer...

A 28 year old woman presented a syndrome of slow spinal compression evolving over four and a half years at the level C1--C2 vertebrae due to a solitary osteochondroma of the posterior arch of the atlas which was excised by laminectomy. Radiographys of the skeleton did not show the presence of other osteogenic tumours. This is the fifth case of solitary osteochondroma to be published. Elsewhere,...

Sweating Disorders after Traumatic Brain injury are common with multifactorial causes including injuries, tumours, infarcts or haemorrhages of the brain or medulla. Irritation of the central or peripheral nervous system may lead to an unexplainable spectrum of sweating ranging from anhidrosis to hyperhidrosis. Stroke in the region of the cerebral hemispheres, hypothalamus, pons & spinal cord ha...