However, we thought it is important to mention certain key information's lacking which clinicians should be aware of, while evaluating the patients of COL. Patients with cervical OLF often present late in clinical course cord compression/spondylosis resulting chronic myeloradiculopathy and an evolving quadriparesis.

Cervical epidural steroid injections, administered either interlaminarly or transforaminally, are common injection therapies used in many interventional pain management practices to treat cervicalgia or cervicobrachial pain secondary to spondylosis or intervertebral disc displacement of the cervical spine. Among the risks associated with these procedures are the risk for inadvertent dural punct...

Twenty-four consecutive patients with cervical spondylosis who were treated with cervical corpectomy and recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2) with standalone anterior instrumentation were evaluated. Mean number of levels fused was 2.4. There were significant improvements in visual analog scale neck pain and Oswestry Disability Index scores and cervical lordosis. Cervical cor...

This meta-analysis was designed to elucidate whether preoperative signal intensity changes could predict the surgical outcomes of patients with cervical spondylosis myelopathy on the basis of T1-weighted and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging images. We searched the Medline database and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials for this purpose and 10 studies meeting our inclusion ...

OBJECTIVE Cervical spondylosis and cervical disk herniation are the most frequent forms of degenerative disease in the cervical spine. Surgical treatment mainly includes anterior cervical disk fusion. However, information concerning vestibular-evoked myogenic potential (VEMP) recording in patients undergoing cervical spine surgery is limited. The present prospective study aimed to investigate t...

Three patients presented with hand wasting and weakness secondary to mid-cervical spinal cord compression. This was due to cervical spondylosis in two patients and a meningioma in one case. This phenomenon is probably similar to that seen with foramen magnum lesions and may be due to spinal cord ischemia distal to the compression, secondary to venous stasis.

BACKGROUND Neck pain caused by cervical spondylosis has become a common health problem worldwide among >40-year-old adults. Acupuncture intervention is one of the most popular treatment measures for this disorder. However, evidence for its efficacy in relieving neck pain and recovering neck physiological function has not been established in randomized, placebo-controlled trials. The primary aim...

Description : Myelopathy is the term designated to all chronic cord lesions regardless of their etiologic origins which may be vascular, inflammatory, nutritional deficiency, post-radiation etc ... but the term myelopathy is more restrictive and should be reserved for a chronic cord lesion resulting from the reduction in the dimensions of the cervical spinal canal of which the main etiology is ...