Abstract Background Infection after vertebral augmentation (VA) often limits the daily activities of patients and even threatens their life. The operation may be one effective treatments if patient suffers from intolerable severe pain, neurological deficits, damage to spinal stability. This study aimed investigate clinical efficacy treatment pyogenic spondylitis (PSVA) with Single posterior deb...

conclusions silodosin use prior to vcug confers a statistically significant increase in bladder neck opening and visualization of posterior urethra. results in group a 19 out of 20 patients were able to achieve satisfactory bladder neck opening while in group b 10 out of 15 patients were able to achieve bladder neck opening. patients and methods patients were divided into two groups a and b con...

There are quite a few controversies on surgical management of single-segment thoracic spinal tuberculosis (STB) with neurological deficits. The present study was to compare single-stage posterior-only transpedicular debridement, interbody fusion and posterior instrumentation (posterior-only surgery) with a combined posterior-anterior surgical approach for treatment of single-segment thoracic ST...

choanal polyps are a form of nasal polyps that grow toward the choana with a single stalk. septochoanal polyp is a rare entity that originates from the mucosa of the nasal septum with choanal extension. the most common site of its origin is mainly the superior aspect of the posterior portion of the nasal septum. however, metaplastic ossification is a rare event in nasal polyp and to the best of...

Background: The most common pediatric elbow fracture is supracondylar humeral fracture which accounts for 60% ofelbow fractures in children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the results of open reduction and internal fixation oftype III supracondylar humeral fractures using a Triceps sparing posterior approach.Methods: In total, 98 patients were evaluated from June 2007 t...