conclusions managing such patients needs a proper transport facility, proper care during transport, appropriate evaluation in the hospital and prompt conservative or operative treatment. treatment is usually safe and effective by well trained professionals with good clinical and radiological outcomes. patients and methods thirty patients (22 males, 8 females) with upper cervical spine injuries ...

Only few cases of spinal subdural empyema has been reported in the literature and the preoperative diagnosis is much less. Due to the advance of magnetic resonance imaging techniques, we reported a 75 years old female with spinal subdural empyema. She was a diabetic patient and received laminectomy, complicated with vertebral body osteomyelitis about 15 years ago at the 4th and 5th vertebral bo...

Human actinomycosis with involvement of the spine is a rare condition although it has been first described a long time ago. It is probably underrecognized since its clinical presentation is often misleading and accurate bacteriological diagnosis is challenging. We herein report a rare case of cervical actinomycosis with paravertebral abscess and spondylitis imputed to an infection by Actinomyce...

Background: The basic challenge with computed radiography (CR) systems is the large dynamic range which provides an opportunity for radiographers to gradually increase exposure factors and still produce good image quality, a practice that can lead to dose creep. Materials and Methods: The aim of this study was to establish  the entrance skin dose (ESD) values for nine selected examinations in t...

A 41-year-old man with recent intravenous drug use presented with 2 weeks of progressively worsening neck and low back pain, four days of bilateral upper and lower extremity weakness, and urinary retention. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a T2/STIR hyperintense posterior epidural collection, suggestive of a spinal epidural abscess (SEA), extending throughout the epidural space of the ...

Introduction: Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (DISH) is a very rare cause of dysphagia when it occurs in the cervical spine. It can also affect the lumbar region where it causes deformity. Case Report: In this article, a rare case of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis involving both the cervical and lumbar spine, presenting with dysphagia and spinal stiffness leading to a stoopin...

Gluteal abscess is a well-documented presentation of a caries spine and other local bony foci of tuberculosis. Still, during a PUBMED data search, only one report of vertebral tuberculosis presenting only as a gluteal abscess in adults was found in English medical literature. The current article describes a case of tuberculosis of the lumbar spine with gluteal abscess as the only clinical featu...

procedure to treat various pathologies of the cervical spine. One of the keys to successful cervical spine surgery is an appropriate positioning, specifically appropriate degree of extension of the cervical spine. At times, the cervical spine extension may have to be altered intra-operatively, which make most of the products that are used to achieve cervical spine extension suffer from some dis...

Introduction: Diagnostic reference level (DRL) is a useful tool for the promotion of optimization. The national DRLs (NDRLs) are useful, brief, and robust guidelines for optimizing radiation protection in a country. The aim of this study was to extract the local DRLs (LDRLs) for some common radiologic examination in Sabzevar county. Materials and Methods: There are eight radiology departments ...

Background: Adjuvant chemotherapy has been an integral component of breast cancer care for decades. Advances in supportive have made, but despite this, infective complications therapy remain a significant toxicity concern. Case Presentation: A premenopausal patient presented to the emergency department during third wave Covid-19 pandemic with sepsis after second course adjuvant docetaxel-cyclop...