STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. PURPOSE To clarify the influence of cervical spinal canal stenosis (CSCS) on neurological functional recovery after traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (CSCI) without major fracture or dislocation. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The biomechanical etiology of traumatic CSCI remains under discussion and its relationship with CSCS is one of the most controvers...

This investigation is concerned with certain properties of the action potential in tracts of the central nervous system. During the course of other studies (16, 3) it became important to know the after-potential sequence of rapidly conducting tract fibers in the intact spinal cord. This paper presents a method for obtaining this information and evidence for the existence in dorsal column axons ...

Vertebral column degeneration is among the most common disorders. It causes significant losses due to worsening quality of life and work absenteeism. Because it also affects also people at production age it generates considerable direct and indirect costs. For instance, according to Rutkow in the USA, the yearly cost of treatment of this disorder in the 1980s was $ 16 billion [1]. Degeneration ...

this presentation analyses the histological types, relative incidences, age, sex and anatomical distributions of one hundred and seventy-nine biopsy proven tumors of the spinal canal from a general hospital in iran. particular attention is paid to differences in the relative incidence of these tumors compared with that in various published reports and the statistics from several eastern countri...

spondylitis is a reemerging epidemic spinal infection in male broiler chickens (5 to 7 weeks of age) as well as broiler breeder roosters (15 to 18 weeks of age). among various causative agents, enterococcus species and in particular e. cecorum, a gram-positive bacterium as a gastrointestinal flora of birds, have mostly been isolated. on late september 2015, a number of 10 weeks old roosters wit...

A spinal meningocele is a herniation of the meninges through a foramina or a defect in the vertebral column and is frequently located posteriorly in the lumbosacral area. An anterior spinal meningocele is rare and is generally described in the thoracic or sacral region. These frequently occur as a manifestation of generalized mesenchymal dysplasia such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) or Marf...

Spinal dysraphism, not associated with vertebral defect or arthrogryposis, was found in a 3-day-old Holstein-Friesian calf that was clinically diagnosed as having encephalopathy. The dysraphic lesion occurred in the sixth (C6) and seventh (C7) segments of the cervical spinal cord. Microscopically, the lesion was characterized by hydromyelia, syringomyelia, anomaly of the ventral median fissure,...

BACKGROUND Central nervous system (CNS) metastases are a common occurrence in patients with breast cancer and are identified in up to 30% of patients at autopsy. OBJECTIVE To determine population-based estimates of survival times after surgical intervention for Medicare patients with metastatic breast cancer to the brain and spinal column. METHODS Female breast cancer patients with metastas...

There is no generally accepted scientific theory for the causes of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). As part of its mission to widen understanding of scoliosis etiology, the International Federated Body on Scoliosis Etiology (IBSE) introduced the electronic focus group (EFG) as a means of increasing debate on knowledge of important topics. This has been designated as an on-line Delphi disc...

Acute medullary syndrome developed in a patient in whom glue had been inadvertently injected into the right posterior radiculomedullary artery during endovascular occlusion of a spinal dural arteriovenous fistula at T-11. MR imaging 40 days after the procedure showed signal changes and contrast enhancement in the posterior and right lateral column at T10-11. Circumscribed signal changes in the ...