OBJECTIVE To describe the use of intermittent cervical traction in managing 4 patients with cervical radiculopathy and large-volume herniated disks. CLINICAL FEATURES Four patients had neck pain radiating to the arm. The clinical examination was typical in all cases for radiculopathy of cervical origin. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cervical spine revealed large-volume herniated dis...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the feasibility of a minimally invasive video-assisted (MIVA) cervical ventral slot (VS) in dogs without the use of fluoroscopy, and to report our initial clinical experiences in dogs. METHODS Two surgical approaches to an intervertebral disk space (IVDS) were performed in eight intact canine cadavers to determine the feasibility of MIVA-VS using the Destandau Endosp...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Diskography is commonly performed to investigate pain of suspected diskogenic origin. Although uncommon, diskitis is a feared complication of this procedure. We reviewed the incidence of diskitis and other infectious complications following diskography in a large busy outpatient practice and discuss technical aspects that may contribute to infection prevention. METHODS ...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. OBJECTIVE Because single-level disk arthroplasty or arthrodesis in the lower subaxial spine improves headaches after surgery, we studied whether this effect may be better appreciated after two-level arthroplasty. METHODS We performed an independent post hoc analysis of two concurrent prospective randomized investigational device exemption trials for cervical ...

Kev words Batswana women; cervical cancer; HI V/ AIDS; chronic emotional pain Abstract: Curationis 32 (4): 29-39 The central phenomenon o f interest to the authors was the experiences o f Batswana women who have been diagnosed with both HIV/AIDS and cervical cancer. They wanted to know how these women and their families coped with the burden o f the two ‘fatal’ diseases. This interest was broug...

BACKGROUND ACDF has been considered as the gold standard in the treatment of single level cervical disk protrusion. However, it may cause adjacent level degeneration due to regional biomechanical changes. TDR has been applied with satisfactory results for over a decade, but there is no consensus if TDR is safer and more efficient than ACDF. The current study was carried out to compare the effic...

Cervical spondylosis (CS) is a frequent clinical problem characterized by symptoms and signs consistent with cervical spine and spinal cord structural abnormalities [1]. Previous studies have shown that the level of disc prolapse among CS patients in the surgical group mostly occurred around C5 and C6 [2]. Cervical spondylosis with myelopathy (CSM) can affect several motor and sensory pathways ...

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. unfortunate...

BACKGROUND Although the basic pathophysiology is the same in both cervical and thoracolumbar intervertebral disk (IVD) extrusions, there are considerable clinical differences that have only been partially explained. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES The epidural inflammatory response differs between cervical and thoracolumbar IVD extrusions. ANIMALS Fifty-five dogs with cervical and 80 dogs with thorac...

Intervertebral disk disease is a common clinical disorder manifested by pain, ataxia, paresis, motor paralysis, and sensorimotor paralysis. The clinical features, diagnosis, and treatment of cervical and thoracolumbar disk disease have been unclear until now. In this study, some differentially expressed genes were identified, and a network was constructed based on these genes. Through the stati...