Abstract   Malacoplakia is a rare chronic inflammatory disease associated with infection and immunosuppression, and very few occurrences have been reported in the bone. The authors describe the case of a 22-year-old woman with paraplegia and urinary and fecal incontinence whose thoracic spine Magnetic Resonance Imaging suggested a tumoral or extensive inflammatory process in the body of the 8...

The risk of osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease increase significantly with age. Because of the long silent latency of these diseases, there is the opportunity for primary prevention before clinical symptoms occur. The newer fan beam dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) systems can detect vertebral fractures with fast, low dose lateral scans of the vertabrae from T4 to L4 in as little as ...

abstract malacoplakia is a rare chronic inflammatory disease associated with infection and immunosuppression, and very few occurrences have been reported in the bone. the authors describe the case of a 22-year-old woman with paraplegia and urinary and fecal incontinence whose thoracic spine magnetic resonance imaging suggested a tumoral or extensive inflammatory process in the body of the 8th, ...

Introduction: Vertebral arteries arise from the root of the neck as the first branches from the superior-posterior aspect of the subclavian arteries. They ascend the neck to enter the cranial cavity and supply blood to the brain. Methods: A total of 20 cadavers (in 10 years) were dissected for the study of variations in the origin of the vertebral artery. This study was conducte...

objective the associations between imperforate anus and spinal and vertebral abnormalities and neurologic deficits are well recognized; these neurologic deficits have been considered static rather than progressive. however, recent experience indicates that some patients may develop progressive neurologic problems due to spinal cord lesions that are amenable to neurosurgical correction. material...

introduction: vertebral arteries arise from the root of the neck as the first branches from the superior-posterior aspect of the subclavian arteries. they ascend the neck to enter the cranial cavity and supply blood to the brain. methods: a total of 20 cadavers (in 10 years) were dissected for the study of variations in the origin of the vertebral artery. this study was conducted in isfahan uni...

conclusions after kyphoplasty, her pain was immediately resolved, vertebral body height was restored to normal, and pain score was reduced from 8 to 1. she was discharged with a normal neurological examination and good general condition, and returned to her normal life. in this case, balloon kyphoplasty resulted in the restoration of the vertebral body height, decrease in pain, and returning to...

STUDY DESIGN An in vitro cadaveric study of interbody fusion devices (IFDs) with differing interface geometries. OBJECTIVE To quantify the trabecular damage and mechanical property degradation resulting from mechanical testing of bone-implant constructs and evaluate the dependence on the interface geometry. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The success of an orthopedic implant depends, in part, on...

The aim of this work is to investigate sweeping surfaces and their local singularities due type-3 Bishop frames in Euclidean 3-space, E3. A surface a that designed from section curve positioned along path, which acts as the vertebral column or spine curve, it has symmetrical characteristics. In work, we have specified examined its geometry singularity. Thereafter, deduced circumstances required...