Neurocutaneous melanosis (NCM) is a rare condition characterized by central nervous system melanocytic tumors associated with congenital melanocytic nevi. Phacomatosis pigmentovascularis (PPV) is an association of vascular nevus with pigmentary nevus. Aberrant maturation of neural crest-derived cells is considered to be related to pathogenesis in both conditions. However, association of NCM and...

Acupuncture therapy is an essential part of traditional Chinese medicine that being recognized by increasing number countries due to its convenience, effectiveness, and low risk adverse reactions. The microenvironment important in the occurrence, development, treatment, rehabilitation diseases, has recently become a focus research field various diseases. Acupuncture’s therapeutic effect on huma...

Spine stereotactic radiosurgery (SSRS) is proving to be one of the most significant advances in the treatment of both metastatic and primary spine tumors. High-dose hypofractionated and single fraction radiation appear to convey better local tumor control than conventional radiation for tumors considered radioresistant, such as renal cell carcinoma and melanoma. Multiple series have demonstrate...

INTRODUCTION Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis is very rare. The majority are discovered incidentally during autopsy. Most symptomatic patients present with rapidly progressive neurological deficits and require immediate examination. Few patients demonstrate features of Brown-Séquard syndrome. Radiotherapy is the gold-standard of therapy for Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis. The overal...

Copyright: © 2013 Ruppert LM. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression is the third most common cause of adult compressive myelopathy, after acute trauma and ...

Traumatic spinal cord injury is one of the important causes of disability.in some of vertebral fractures,spinal canal is deformed and compromised.the relationship between the shape of the cervical canal and spinal cord hnjury has been proved but such a correlation for thoraculombar spine 50 patients with compromised canal(cases) and 50 oatients with intact canal were evaluated in the light of s...

Primary spinal cord oligodendrogliomas are rare tumors comprising two percent of all spinal cord tumors. Although a treatment guideline has yet to be established, maximal surgical resection is primary in the treatment of spinal cord oligodendrogliomas. Adjuvant radiotherapy has remained controversial, and it is unclear whether chemotherapy adds any benefit. In this case report, the authors pres...

BACKGROUND Intramedullary spinal cord tumors are rare but clinically significant entities. Resection is critical to prevent permanent neurological deficits. However, no studies have investigated the quality of life (QOL) benefit of resection in adults. OBJECTIVE To investigate QOL outcomes after intramedullary spinal cord tumors resection. METHODS A consecutive retrospective review of all p...

Twenty-eight patients with intradural inflammatory disease of the spine were studied in order to characterize the MR imaging findings of infectious and inflammatory conditions. Patients were categorized according to the spinal compartment involved. Among the 12 patients in the intradural extramedullary group, unenhanced scans were either normal or nonspecific while contrast-enhanced scans were ...

it has been shown that the immunophilin ligands have the special advantage in spinal cord repair. in this study, the effects of cyclosporine a (csa) on functional recovery and histological outcome were evaluated following spinal cord injury in rats. after spinal cord hemisection in thirty six adult female sprague-dawley rats (200- 250 g), treatment groups received csa (2.5 mg/kg i.p.) at 15min ...