Scoliosis is a lateral or sideways deviation of the spine or vertebral column. Scoliosis can be treated by postural correction, providing braces or by surgery. Even after treating scoliosis with the help of brace or surgery, the normal spine range of motion is not achieved in most cases. After treating scoliosis either by brace or surgery, the normal posture might be achieved. But, it is import...

Noninvasive evaluation of metastatic disease in the spine has generally been limited to 2D qualitative or semiquantitative analysis techniques. This study aims to develop and evaluate a highly automated micro-CT-based quantitative analysis tool that can measure the architectural impact of metastatic involvement in whole vertebrae. Micro-CT analysis of rat whole vertebrae was conducted using a c...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Animals are commonly used to model the human spine for in vitro and in vivo experiments. Many studies have investigated similarities and differences between animals and humans in the lumbar and thoracic vertebrae. However, a quantitative anatomic comparison of calf, pig, and human cervical spines has not been reported. PURPOSE To compare fundamental structural similarities ...

OBJECTIVE Observation of post treatment kyphotic angle in patient of cervical spine tuberculosis managed non operatively. BACKGROUND The incidence of tuberculosis of cervical spine is about 6-9%. The most dreaded complications of spinal tuberculosis are neural involvement and spinal deformity. Due to destruction of the vertebra tuberculosis of spine usually leads to variable amount of kyphoti...

In this paper we propose a simple model for the coupling behavior of the human spine for an inverse kinematics framework. Our spine model exhibits anatomically correct motions of the vertebrae of virtual mannequins by coupling standard swing and revolute joint models. The adjustement of the joints is made with several simple (in)equality constraints, resulting in a reduction of the solution spa...

Methods A total of 75 female patients with AIS, 86 healthy agematched girls and 40 age-matched patients with CS due to excrescent hemivertebra were included into this study. Long-cassette standing coronal radiographs of the spine and pelvis were obtained from the subjects in fiston-clavicle position. The radiographic parameters were measured including length of spine (LOS), height of spine (HOS...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 there are a few case series of giant cell tumor (gct) in the spine and sacrum. gct in the thoracic vertebrae is even more exceptional in the medical literature. in this article we report a gct in a 25-year-old male who presented with progressive back pain and dyspnea. on contrast-enhanced multidetector computer tomography,...

The lumbar spine, although often described as a single functional unit, is composed of 5 vertebrae forming what are called "motion segments" connected in series.5 Each motion segment consists of 2 adjacent vertebral bodies and the connecting ligaments.6 Spinal motion segments represent the smallest segments of the spine exhibiting biomechanical characteristics similar to those of the entire spi...

background: the cervical spine is the most vulnerable part of the vertebral column and the rotational movements are the most dangerous movements which may cause damages to cervical spine. a good treatment option for the cervical disc disease is the replacement of a damaged disc with an artificial disc that has shown satisfactory clinical results. methods: the c4 to c6 vertebrae of a normal subj...

OBJECTIVE To compare the level of agreement of quantitative morphometry of the vertebrae on lateral views of the spine using conventional X-ray and using a dual X-ray absorptiometry device (DXA) in determining the degree of wedging of vertebrae in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). METHODS Thirty patients with AS underwent DXA to acquire single-energy morphometric X-ray absorptiometry...