Jarcho Levin syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by multipl vertebral and costal anomalies at birth. Jarcho Levin syndrome includes two phenotypic groups: spondylothoracic dysostosis and spondylocostal dysostosis. The prognosis of spondylothoracic dysostosis has worse than spondylocostal dysostosis, because of respiratory complications. Associated malformations include those of th...

Volume 2 • Issue 5 • 1000145 J Spine ISSN: 2165-7939 JSP, an open access journal Spinal Cord Venous Infarction Presumed to be Caused by a Lumbar Vertebral Body Malformation after Vertebral Complession Fracture Shinji Tanishima1*, Satoru Fukata1, Hiroyuki Ishi1, Yasuo Morio1, Toshiyuki Dokai2 and Akihiko Nishihara3 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Misasa Onsen Hospital, Japan 2Department of O...

Goldenhar syndrome is a rare developmental disorder characterised by hemifacial microsomia, epibulbar tumours, ear malformation, and vertebral anomalies. As monozygotic (MZ) twins are believed to be genetically identical, discordance for disease phenotype between MZ twins varies with craniofacial anomalies, cardiac, vertebral, and central nervous system defects sporadically. We report a case of...

A 48-year-old woman developed progressive right lower extremity numbness and lancinating pain of pharynx. T2-weighted MRI revealed a flow-void area that corresponded to the both aberrant vertebral arteries (persistent first intersegmental arteries) severely compressing distorting medulla oblongata tonsilar herniation consistent with mild Chiari malformation. Mild hydrocephalus was also noted th...

Cervical vertebral anomalies are often associated with malformations or traumas, they may be completely asymptomatic and represent an occasional finding in vertigo or can cause severe neurologic complications (ie, compression of the upper cervical spine with myelopathy, epilepsy, or respiratory failure). This clinical case is a patient who came to us for observation for a peripheral harmonic ve...

in the present research, molecular detection of bovine leukocyte adhesion deficiency (blad) and complex vertebral malformation (cvm)in a population of iranian holstein cows has been carried outusing milk somatic cells by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism(pcr-rflp). the blad and cvm are monogenic and autosomal recessive heredity lethal syndrome in holstein-friesi...

The development of the axial skeleton is a complex process, consisting of segmentation and differentiation of somites and ossification of the vertebrae. The autosomal recessive skeletal fusion with sterility (sks) mutation of the mouse causes skeletal malformations due to fusion of the vertebrae and ribs, but the underlying defects of vertebral formation during embryonic development have not ye...

OBJECTIVES Goldenhar syndrome (GS) is a relatively common developmental disorder characterized by craniofacial anomalies in association with vertebral, cardiac, renal, and central nervous system defects. This paper describes GS features with special emphasis on oral characteristics. MATERIAL AND METHODS The clinical features of 6 patients with GS aged 3 months to 12 years are described, and a...

The MR findings in a case of a Chiari type I malformation that resolved spontaneously over a 4-year period are presented. Differential growth of the skull and spine might have accounted for the resolution of this anomaly.