In the preantibiotic era, pyogenic thoracic vertebral osteomyelitis was often complicated by mediastinal abscess, empyema, or necrotising pneumonia which arose by contiguous invasion late in the disease and progressed to bacteraemia and death.' Since the advent of antibiotics, however, the disease more often presents insidiously and may simulate mediastinal tumour, or gastrointestinal, genitour...

Giant cell tumors (GCTs) of the bone are neoplasms that may be locally aggressive and are located primarily in the epiphysis or meta-epiphysis of long bones. GCTs of the thoracic vertebra are rare, easily misdiagnosed, and infrequently reported; therefore, it is essential to improve the awareness of clinicians with respect to the occurrence of GCTs in thoracic vertebra. Herein, we describe a ca...

A 48-year-old Chinese female was referred to us regarding EGFR-mutated advanced non-small cell lung cancer, and metastasis to left scapula and vertebrae bones which caused pathological fracture at T8 and T10 thoracic vertebrae. An aggressive combined therapy with icotinib, vertebrae operation, and radioactive particle implantation and immunotherapy was proposed to prevent paraplegia, relieve pa...

In this study, skeletal anomalies such as vertebral centra deformation, lordosis (ventral curvature), and consecutive repetition of kyphosis were examined in specimens Barbus xanthos (Güçlü, Kalaycı, Küçük & Turan, 2020) collected from the Dalaman River, southwestern Turkey. Abnormalities column observed both thoracic caudal vertebrae. Cases showed varying degrees severity. Specimens with m...

A sandwich vertebra is formed after multiple osteoporotic vertebral fractures treated by percutaneous vertebroplasty, which has a risk of developing new fractures. The purpose of our study was to (i) investigate the occurrence of new fractures in sandwich vertebra after cement augmentation procedures and to (ii) evaluate the clinical outcomes after prophylactic vertebral reinforcement applied w...

BACKGROUND Because the complications of vertebroplasty are serious and can include new fracture, we retrospectively evaluated potential risk factors for new fracture after vertebroplasty. Our hypothesis is that thoracolumbar vertebrae adjacent to a vertebroplasty site have a higher incidence of new compression fracture than do other vertebrae. METHODS Between March 2001 and December 2002, a t...

The vertebral column has evolved to accommodate the broad range of locomotor pressures found across vertebrate lineages. Xenarthran (armadillos, sloths and anteaters) vertebral columns are characterized by xenarthrous articulations, novel intervertebral articulations located in the posterior trunk that are hypothesized to stiffen the vertebral column to facilitate digging. To determine the degr...

Abstract The occurrence of lateral openings and pleurocoels (lateral fossae) in the corpus thoracic vertebrae extant fossil neornithine birds is reviewed, with both features having been identified as osteological correlates avian pulmonary system. Openings mainly occur larger species a high overall bone pneumatization but do not seem to serve for passage lung or air sac diverticula. Pleurocoels...