Description : Myelopathy is the term designated to all chronic cord lesions regardless of their etiologic origins which may be vascular, inflammatory, nutritional deficiency, post-radiation etc ... but the term myelopathy is more restrictive and should be reserved for a chronic cord lesion resulting from the reduction in the dimensions of the cervical spinal canal of which the main etiology is ...

Serial spinal somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded in six patients undergoing radiotherapy involving incidental spinal radiation. Two patients developed transient radiation myelopathy. No abnormality was found in the somatosensory evoked potentials throughout the study.

Radiation myelopathy is one of the most serious complications of radiation therapy, with over 300 cases reported since its discovery in the 1930s (1). Diffuse cord enlargement on myelography has been described as an occasional and nonspecific finding (2], although the spinal cord may be normal in size. We describe the MR findings in a case of radiation myelitis in which the diagnosis was sugges...

PURPOSE Using MR imaging, we assessed the signal, size, and enhancing characteristics of the cervical cord in patients in whom radiation myelopathy developed after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS Ten patients, 3 men and 7 women, aged from 32 to 77 years, were included. MR imaging was performed 1 to 53 months after clinical manifestations of myelopathy. RESULT...

Post-radiation myelopathy and brachial plexopathy have been well established in the literature. In recent years there have been several reports of myopathy in association with radiation therapy (RT) for Hodgkin’s disease. Cervical paraspinal and shoulder girdle muscles are within the radiation portal for Hodgkin’s disease, and most patients with radiation-induced myopathy exhibit weakness and a...

BACKGROUND Spine stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is becoming widely accepted as first-line treatment of oligometastatic spine disease as well as in the postoperative setting. The reported incidence of myelopathy is very low and guidelines vary widely on the maximum tolerable dose of the spinal cord and thecal sac. METHODS AND MATERIALS Between April 2008 and December 2010, radiatio...

objective: radiation myelopathy (rm) is known as a serious complication of head and neck radiation therapy. furthermore, the radioprotective roles of melatonin have been investigated on different tissues. the aim of this study was to assess the radio protective effects of melatonin on biochemical, histopathological and clinical manifestations of rm in the rat cervical spinal cord. materials and...

Proton beam therapy is a common type of radiation treatment that delivers proton particles to treat cancer and minimize damage nearby healthy tissue. In this paper, we describe case 20-year-old male patient with osteosarcoma the distal right femur eventually metastasized his thoracic cavity. The underwent was directed at left thorax nine months later presented clinical radiographic findings del...

Objective: The authors report a rare case of uterine adenocarcinoma metastasis to both the skull base and cervical spine presenting with pathological fracture and myelopathy. Methods: We report the case of a 43-year-old Asian female with widely metastatic uterine adenocarcinoma who over the course of 3 years was diagnosed with a large clival mass and more recently a cervical spine pathological ...