Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common condition in elderly patients and may lead to progressive back and leg pain, muscular weakness, sensory disturbance, and/or problems with ambulation. Multiple studies suggest that surgical decompression is an effective therapy for patients with symptomatic lumbar stenosis. Although traditional lumbar decompression is a time-honored procedure, minimally invasiv...

  Epidural abscess of the spinal column is a rare condition that can be fatal if left untreated. It promptly progresses and can cause neurologic paralysis, urinary retention or cauda equina syndrome. Compromised immune system that occurs in patients with diabetes mellitus, AIDS, chronic renal failure, alcoholism, or cancer is a predisposing factor. It mostly occurs in adults. Here we would like...

BACKGROUND Since the descriptions by Mixter and Barr of surgical treatment for rupture of the intervertebral disc in 1934, open surgical procedures have become a common practice. Disc herniations are often classified as being contained or non-contained. The results of open surgical discectomy for contained disc herniation have been poor. Consequently, several less invasive techniques have been ...

AIM Ossification of the ligamentumflavum (OLF) is a primary cause of thoracic myelopathy. A relatively safe surgical technique based on radiological type is described for the OLF-induced thoracic myelopathy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Forty patients with thoracic myelopathy caused by OLF were studied retrospectively. The OLF was divided into fused and non-fused types according to the CT and MRI fin...

Peripheral diabeticneuropathy (PDN) is one of the major complications arising in patients with diabetes.A triad of metabolic abnormalities is known that render the peripheral nerve in diabetes mellitus susceptible to chronic compression: conversion of glucose to sorbitol increases the intraneural water content, slowing of axoplasmic transport of proteins hinders structural repair, glycosylation...

The authors report a case of abdominal compartment syndrome caused by massive pyonephrosis in an infant with primary obstructive megaureter successfully treated with emergency surgical decompression.

Since Jackson reported the first case of Spinal Epidumi Haematoma (SSEH) in 1869 , some 250 cases have appeared inthe literature. We report the first case of SSEH that showed good recovery offunctioneven after complete tetrapelgia and respiratory arrest, emphasizing the favourable outcome of surgical decompression. There have been repoits of spontaneous resolution of the condition and recovery ...

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 ...

AIMS/BACKGROUND In Graves' ophthalmopathy the increase in volume of intraocular muscles and fat will cause elevated intraorbital pressure. In order to investigate the pressure levels involved, intraorbital pressure, or retrobulbar pressure (RBP) was measured continuously in orbits of patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy during surgical decompression. METHODS Retrobulbar pressure was measured ...