Cervical spinal pain, also will be referred to as cervical spinal hyperesthesia (CSH), is an abnormal clinical sign commonly associated with compressive or inflammatory diseases of the cervical spinal region. Hyperesthesia denotes an unpleasant behavioral response to a nonnoxious stimulus. As part of a routine neurologic examination, spinal hyperesthesia is evaluated by deep palpation of the sp...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. PURPOSE The aim of present study was to investigate imaging findings suggestive of cauda equina entrapment in thoracolumbar and lumbar burst fractures. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Burst fractures with cauda equina entrapment can cause neurologic deterioration during surgery. However, dural tears and cauda equina entrapment are very difficult to diagnose clinic...

BACKGROUND Spinal fractures are a common source of morbidity in cancer patients. Balloon Kyphoplasty (BKP) is a minimally invasive procedure designed to stabilize fractures and correct vertebral deformities. We performed a meta-analysis to determine the efficacy and safety of BKP for spinal fractures in cancer patients. METHODS We searched several electronic databases up to September 2008 and...

Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Objective The objective was to measure the change of flavum ligament diameter during positional changes of the cervical spine using kinetic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to examine the correlational diameter changes of the flavum ligament, disk bulging, and the spinal canal from extension to flexion positions. Methods One hundred eight-nine patien...

A 60-year-old patient with testicular seminoma was referred for F-18 FDG PET/CT Study to evaluate recurrence. In addition to hypermetabolic cervical, mediastinal and hilar lymph node tumoral metastases, segmental intense FDG uptake along the lumbar spinal cord suggestive of tumoral metastasis was noted which quite an unusual presentation is.  At the time of PET study the patient was symptomless...

BACKGROUND Conventional prehospital spine-assessment approaches based on low index of suspicion and mechanism of injury (MOI) result in the liberal application of spinal immobilization in trauma patients. A painful distracting injury (DI), such as a suspected hip fracture, historically has been a sufficient condition for immobilization, even in an elderly patient who suffers a simple fall from ...

RATIONALE Hypertrophy of posterior longitudinal ligament (HPLL) at C1-2 level accompanied with lower cervical spinal stenosis is rare in clinic. No reports have described HPLL at C1-2 level accompanied with lower cervical spinal stenosis treated by posterior decompression, combined with internal fixation in 1 stage. PATIENT CONCERNS A 70-year-old Chinese female complained of numbness and para...

were excluded. Patients for whom outcome information was not obtained also were excluded. Methods bulance services transporting to 7 hospitals in 3 counties in southeastern Michi-Study Design: We performed a mul-To Edi'oc-sPinal injury is ticenter, prospective, out-of-hospital, ob-gan. Three of the hospitals treat major one of the most devastating potential out-servational study to estimate the...

Cervical spine compression with cervical radicular or cervical spinal cord compression is a common neck condition caused by inflammatory diseases, cervical disk degeneration, neck injuries or other less common causes (tumours, infections etc.). The phosphorylated form of the High-Molecular-Weight Neurofilament Subunit NF-H (pNF-H) in Cerebro-Spinal Fluid (CSF) is a specific biomarker for spinal...