this study was conducted to evaluate the effects of maternal diabetes on fetal spinal structure, especiallyin brachial enlargement. sixteen adult female rats were divided into two groups. diabetes was induced in one group by alloxan agent. both groups became pregnant by natural matting. on days 7, 14, 21 and 28 after birth, the brachial enlargement of the spinal cord was collected from offsprin...

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...

introduction spinal tumours may be classified in three groups: 1) extradural, 2) intradural extramedullary and 3) intramedullary spinal cord tumours. intradural extramedullary tumours arise from the leptomeninges or nerve roots and include schwannomas. a schwannoma is usually a firm grey-whitish tumour growing near a nerve trunk or ramus. it can be separated from the nerve without damaging neur...

compound action potential (cap) of spinal cord represents valuable properties of neural fibers including excitability, rate of myelination and membrane integrity. these properties are measured using amplitude, latency and area under curve of caps recorded from spinal cord. here, the isolated spinal cord was set in a double sucrose gap (dsg) chamber and its response to intracellular stimulation ...

background and aim : acute injuries of the spine and spinal cord are causing the greatest amount of disability. they produce high cost outcomes for patients and society psychologically and economically. knowing the epidemiology of these injuries play an important role in planning for prevention and conservative treatment. but now, we have little information about this in our country. the aim of...

conclusions in squatting position the number of spinal needle-bone contacts was lower compared to the traditional sitting position, nonetheless ease of needle insertion or space identification was the same in the both groups. results the total number of spinal needle bone contact was statistically lower in the squatting position compared to traditional sitting position group (222 versus 230 res...

in this study to determine whether spine stiffness is predictive of clinical results after lumbar spinal fusion for spinal stenosis, a total of 78 patients were measured intraoperatively with kocher clamp manual distraction technique to determine motion segment stiffness then spinal fusion was performed for any loose segment. ‎statistical analysis revealed that stiffness measurement correlate w...

Background: Spinal anesthesia is a type of neuraxial anesthesia that brings ample benefits. However, due to the fear of this type of anesthesia, many pregnant people refuse to experience it. In this study, we aimed to investigate the levels and causes of fear of spinal anesthesia in candidates for cesarean section. Methods: The current study is a cross-sctional study performed on 67 patients u...

how to cite this article: abbad a, afzal k, mujeeb aa, shahab t, khalid m. spontaneous ventral spinal epidural hematoma in an infant: an unusual presentation. iran j child neurol. 2013  spring;7(2):47-50. abstract spontaneous ventral spinal epidural hematomas are extremely rare in children and clinically recognized by the appearance of acute asymmetric focal motor and sensory involvement. in in...