Although, the history of orthotic treatment for idiopathic scoliosis goes back more than fifty years, the mechanism of curve control by spinal orthosis is still controversial. Hypothetical explanations have been provided but few, if any, have been tested clinically. This study aims at the biomechanical evaluation of a spinal orthosis (Milwaukee brace) in order to improve understanding about the...

Effective quadrupedal locomotor behaviors require the coordination of many muscles in the limbs, back, neck, and tail. Because of the spinal motoneuronal somatotopic organization, motor coordination implies interactions among distant spinal networks. Here, we investigated some of the interactions between the lumbar locomotor networks that control limb movements and the thoracic networks that co...

A ruptured thoracic aorta is a rare but lifethreatening condition requiring immediate intervention. Possible causes of a ruptured thoracic aorta are ruptured descending thoracic aneurysms, acute type B aortic dissections, penetrating aortic ulcers, and traumatic thoracic aortic injuries (TTAI). Thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) offers an effective treatment for these acute thoracic ao...

BACKGROUND Thoracic surgeries including thoracotomy and VATS are some of the highest risk procedures that often lead to CPSP, with or without a neuropathic component. This retrospective study aims to determine retrospectively the prevalence of CPSP following thoracic surgery, its predicting risk factors, the incidence of neuropathic component, and its impact on quality of life. METHODS Patien...

The right-sided thoracic aortic arch is a rare congenital malformation occurring during embryologic development. A majority of the cases present with two anatomic variations, one of which is an aberrant left subclavian artery (LSA) originating off the distal descending aortic arch. This aberrant LSA courses across and compresses thoracic structures on its way to the left thoracic outlet. While ...

1 Serdar Özkan1, Ertan Aydın2, Özgür Ömer Yıldız3, Ülkü Yazıcı4, Mehmet Furkan Şahin5, Funda Demirağ6 1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Karatay University Medicana Faculty of Medicine, Konya, 2Department of Thoracic Surgery, Koru Hospital, Ankara, 3Department of Thoracic Surgery, Dışkapı Yıldırım Bayezit Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, 4Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ataturk Training an...

BACKGROUND To report the association between thoracic duct ligation and acute pancreatitis. The association between sudden stop of lymphatic flow and pancreatitis has been established in experimental models. CASE PRESENTATION A 57-year-old woman operated for thymoma presented a iatrogenic chylothorax. After thoracic duct ligation, she presented an acute pancreatitis which resolved after conse...

abstract malacoplakia is a rare chronic inflammatory disease associated with infection and immunosuppression, and very few occurrences have been reported in the bone. the authors describe the case of a 22-year-old woman with paraplegia and urinary and fecal incontinence whose thoracic spine magnetic resonance imaging suggested a tumoral or extensive inflammatory process in the body of the 8th, ...

Although the exact etiology is not fully understood, most physicians recognize that endometriosis plays a key role (3). In the literature, this condition is described at thoracic endometriosis (TE), thoracic endometriosis syndrome (TES), or thoracic endometriosis-related pneumothorax (TERP). Documented case studies describe thoracic or pulmonary endometriosis as implants on the lung or pleura (...

A lateral approach, consisting of a modified transversectomy, hemilaminectomy, and adequate transversectomy with costectomy of 7-8 cm, was used to treat four cases of anterior or anterolateral thoracic lesions, including two cases of thoracic disc herniations, one of thoracic meningioma, and one of hypertrophic pachymeningitis. All patients presented with gait disturbance, but recovered well po...