Spinal stenosis—conclusions

Huge Sequestered Spinal Disc Mimicking Spinal Intradural Tumor

Background and Importance: Disk sequestration can be defined as a herniated disk with perforation of the fibrous ring (or outermost annulus fibrosus) and posterior longitudinal ligament with migration of the disk fragment to the epidural space. Even after the introduction of high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it is still frequently misinterpreted as neoplastic masses. U...

Spinal Anaesthesia in Spinal Surgery

Assessment of corelation between spinal canal shape and spinal cord injury in thoracolumbar spine fractures

Traumatic spinal cord injury is one of the important causes of disability.in some of vertebral fractures,spinal canal is deformed and compromised.the relationship between the shape of the cervical canal and spinal cord hnjury has been proved but such a correlation for thoraculombar spine 50 patients with compromised canal(cases) and 50 oatients with intact canal were evaluated in the light of s...

Spinal subarachnoid hematoma after spinal anesthesia

Corresponding author: Sang Lee Park, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, National Police Hospital, Garakbon-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-708, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3400-1325, Fax: 82-2-3400-1322, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/...

General Approach to Spinal Deformities Spinal

Malalignment of the spine can be defined as a spinal deformity. Spinal deformities may be secondary to a variety of causes including congenital anomalies, neuromuscular disorders, skeletal dysplasies, and some other developmental disorders. Pediatric spine deformities may be accompanied by neural and systemic organ pathologies. Therefore the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up strategies may cha...