Changes in sagittal alignment after surgical excision of thoracic spinal cord tumors in adults

Neurological Outcome after Surgical Treatment of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors

OBJECTIVE Recently, surgical outcomes of patients with intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT) have been improved due to advances of medicine. The purposes of our study were to evaluate the recent neurological outcomes after surgical treatment of IMSCTs. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 69 patients who underwent surgical treatment for IMSCT in our hospital between 1998 and 2013. Patient'...

Sagittal spinal pelvic alignment.

The goal of any ambulatory patient is to maintain a horizontal gaze with the least amount of energy expenditure. With progressive deformity, and in particular sagittal malalignment, significant compensatory mechanisms must be used to achieve this goal. Each pelvis dictates the amount of lumbar lordosis required through its morphometric parameter pelvic incidence. The pelvis may compensate for d...

Microsurgical Excision of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors: Surgical Strategy and Clinical Outcome

Sagittal spinal alignment and ambulation

A relationship between spinal deformity and ambulation is yet to be clarified. We hypothesized that undesirable spino-pelvic alignment affects walking ability. The purpose of present study is to clarify an influence of spinopelvic alignments on walking ability. Consecutive patients who visited our institution between October 2011 to September 2012 were retrospectively surveyed. The cases of neu...

Surgical excision in Bowen’s disease

Background: Bowen’s disease is a form of intraepidermal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) characterised by a persistent, non-elevated, red, scaly or crusted plaque with a small potentialfor invasive malignancy. Most cases of typical Bowen’s disease in the white population are found on the lower legs of the elderly women. H...