spinal cord injury (sci) is a crucial complication that results in neurons degeneration. the sci lead to triggering of secondary complications such as inflammation that in turn has a key role in neurodegeneration development. the previous studies showed that tnf-α and inos genes expression increased significantly after sci. as a consequence, these genes overexpression intensify the inflammation...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study of intradural extramedullary tumor. OBJECTIVE To compare the treatment results in the different surgeries of spinal intradural extramedullary tumor. METHODS The study retrospectively reviewed 122 patients. The minimally invasive surgery (MIS) group was divided into Group A (hemilaminectomy + tumor microscopic excision) and Group B (laminectomy + tumor micr...

Objective: To observe the therapeutic effect of microsurgery through hemilaminectomy approach on extramedullary spinal tumor. Methods: Hemilaminectomy was performed on 45 patients with extramedullary spinal tumor. Of the 45 patients, 35 had intradural extramedullary spinal tumors and 10 dumbbell-shaped spinal tumors. Spinal schwannoma occurred in 36 patients and spinal meningioma in 9 patients....

Background & Importance: Acute autonomic system impairment can be dangerous and life-threatening, and a clinician should be aware of its occurrence possibility. According to the anatomy of this system, spinal cord lesions could disturb its function. There are many reports of autonomic dysreflexia in spinal cord i njuries especially spinal cord trauma. Case Presentation: A 28 year-o...

BACKGROUND In the treatment of spinal cord tumors, complete tumor resection with complete reconstruction of the spine represents the ideal goal. However, for the treatment of heavily calcified spinal meningioma, en-bloc resection of the tumor together with the involved dura at the tumor base through laminectomy is quite difficult. Conventional laminectomy is not wide enough to allow full exposu...

ependymomas are glial tumors originate from ependymal cells lining the ventricles and the central canal of the spinal cord. two thirds of ependymomas arise in the infratentorial or intraventriclesandone-third aredetected in supratentorial area. however supratentorial “cortical” ependymomas are veryuncommon. ependymomas are usually infratentorial, intraventricular tumor, including 2–9% of all ce...

Spinal epidermoid cyst is less than 1% of the entire spinal cord tumor and a rare tumor. It is a slowly proliferating benign tumor and can be a result of either congenital or acquired factors. In particular, reports of acute paraplegia due to spinal epidermoid cyst rupture are very rare. Since authors experienced paraplegia resulting from congenital spinal epidermoid cyst rupture during an asth...