Intracranial hypotension syndrome typically occurs spontaneously or iatrogenically. It can be associated with headache, drowsy mentality and intracranial heamorrhage. Iatrogenic intracranial hypotension can occur due to dural pucture, trauma and spine surgery. Treatment may include conservative therapy and operation. We report a case of a 54-year-old man who was successfully treated with epidur...

Previous bone fusion surgery by surgeon has three major difficulties: lack of operation accuracy, surgeon's overexposure to radioactive contamination, and need of surgeon's intensive labor during operation. This paper proposes a bilateral teleoperation system for spine bone fusion surgery, BiTESS-II, to overcome those problems. In order to determine design specification of the system, we estima...

spine surgery began its evolution in the beginning of the 19th century in order to reach nowadays the point of being considered an important subspecialty of neurosurgery and orthopaedics. the purpose of this historical review is the search and evaluation of the progress in spine surgery until the middle of the 20th century. this review concerns the inauguration and evolution of this field in gr...

Two cases were reported in which severe postoperative laryngeal edema were developed after the operation of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) of cervical spine. In the first case, sudden airway obstruction was developed in the general ward 6 hour after uneventful decompression surgery for osteophyte. In the second patient, an elective preoperative tracheostomy was performed before...

In the book ”Contemporary Endoscopic Spine Surgery”, edited by Kai-Uwe Lewandrowski, Jorge Felipe Ramírez León, and Anthony Yeung, information on history of spinal endoscopy is provided. A number aspects surgery are covered, in particular pain, preoperative examination, indications for endoscopic surgery, anesthesia, outpatient surgery. New technologies described. Leading scientists presented c...

Spine surgery has been increased as the population ages, but the occurrence of unusual complication such as remote cerebellar hemorrhage (RCH) is not well understood. We recently experienced a case of RCH in a 60-year-old woman showed neurologic dysfunction after degenerative lumbar spine surgery. There was no definite dural tearing and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) loss during operation. Brain mag...

Surgical intervention at the cervical spine bear a high risk of neurological deficits for the patient while the size of the operation field decrease, because of the trend towards minimal invasive surgery. Although conventional intraoperative imaging techniques, such as fluoroscopy have proven useful, they are limited in that they do not provide information continuously. Because of the intraoper...

abstract   background: far lateral discal herniation is an uncommon disorder and is difficult to assess by physical examination alone. this study is designed to define clinical and epidemiological findings and to establish the indications of surgical and medical treatment for flldh.   methods: between 2000 and 2005, a total of 2035 patients with lumbar disc herniation underwent surgical discect...

background nowadays, with the help of cosmetic surgery almost every woman and man can achieve a highly attractive appearance. the question is, why so many people do not take advantage of these opportunities? this pilot-study investigates individual attitudes of people towards aesthetic plastic surgery. methods a questionnaire was developed which combined self-developed items for a measurement o...

Objective: To compare the clinical efficacy of CT-guided radiofrequency ablation and open surgery in the treatment of osteoid osteoma of the spine. Methods: From June 2012 to June 2016, 45 patients with osteoid osteoma of the spine were treated with CT-guided radiofrequency ablation in 23 cases (Group A) and open surgical resection in 22 cases (Group B). The out-of-bed activity time, visual ana...