The “rugger jersey” vertebral body

Open transpedicular biopsy of the vertebral body.

We describe a method of obtaining a biopsy from the body of a vertebra by an open transpedicular route. This minimises the danger of contamination of tissue planes and spaces.

Minimally Invasive Treatment of Vertebral Body Fractures

Collapsed L4 Vertebral Body Caused by Brucellosis

Brucellosis is caused by gram-negative, aerobic, non-motile, facultative, intracellular coccobacilli belonging to the genus Brucella. A 50-year-old man working as an employee was admitted to neurosurgery clinic with severe low back, radicular right leg pain and hypoesthesia in right L4-5 dermatomes for 2 months. Brucella tube agglutination (Wright) test was positive in serum sample of the patie...

Automatic registration for percutaneous vertebral body tracking

The registration of cross-sectional medical images with patient anatomy is an important problem in image-guided surgery. Current registration methods such as paired-point matching can be tedious and require large incisions. Improved methods of registration for percutaneous spine procedures could potentially improve the accuracy of minimally invasive spine procedures. In this poster, we will des...

Percutaneous Vertebral Body Augmentation: An Updated Review

There are many medical conditions like osteoporosis, tumor, or osteonecrosis that weaken the structural strength of the vertebral body and prone it to fracture. Percutaneous vertebral augmentation that is usually applied by polymethylmethacrylate is a relatively safe, effective, and long lasting procedure commonly performed in these situations. In this paper, we updated a review of biomechanics...