INTRODUCTION Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy. Most women present with abnormal vaginal bleeding. Cervical stenosis can prevent early uterine bleeding leading to delayed diagnosis of the disease. CASE PRESENTATION A 67 years old Caucasian woman presented with three days history of right flank pain and difficulty in urination. Her medical history included cervical c...

Upper back pain originating from the cervical disk itself is defined as cervical discogenic upper back pain. Coblation procedures can provide therapeutic effects for neck and radicular pain related to contained cervical disk herniation. However, no studies have reported the performance of coblation procedures, particularly for treating cervical discogenic upper back pain. The purpose of this st...

The anatomy of the first vertebra, namely atlas, has significant clinical implications. Atlas is situated between occipital bone and second cervical vertebra (axis) one main points head movement. Most congenital anomalies are diagnosed incidentally during imaging investigations can be associated with spine anomalies. neurological symptoms may include weakness in four limbs, acute neurologic def...

Acute calcific prevertebral tendinitis, which is also known as retropharyngeal calcific tendinitis and longus colli tendinitis, is an under-recognized cause of acute cervical pain produced by an inflammation of the longus colli muscle. The typical characteristics of this entity are calcifications at the superior insertion of the longus colli tendons at the C1-C2 level and fluid collection in th...

The main objective of this study is to validate medical thermography as a useful complementary test determine acute processes in grade I and II trauma cervical sprain after traffic accident. From May 2020 August 2021, thermographic studies were carried out on people injured accidents with diagnosis sprain, treated health centers 20 Spanish provinces, by accredited technical personnel under pre-...

We report on the anesthetic experience of a 38-week pregnant patient in labor with an upper cervical spinal cord injury after an unusual trauma. She was transferred from a district hospital to our medical center with acute quadriplegia and sensory loss. Plain cervical spine x-ray and computed tomographic scan showed a C2 odontoid (dens of axis) process type II fracture and atlantoaxial (C1-C2) ...

BACKGROUND Whiplash associated disorder is commonly linked to motor vehicle accidents and sports injuries. Cervical injury is attributed to rapid extension followed by neck flexion. The exact pathophysiology of whiplash is uncertain but probably involves some degree of aberrant muscle spasms and may produce a wide range of symptoms. The most commonly prescribed pharmacological agents for initia...

BACKGROUND Prompted by an increase in interventional pain treatments performed at the level of the cervical spine, we investigated the characteristics and patterns of injury in malpractice claims collected from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2008. METHODS We compared claims arising from cervical pain treatments with all other chronic pain claims collected from the American Society of Anesthe...

BACKGROUND Cervical osteomyelitis accounts for only 3-11% of all cases of spinal osteomyelitis, and the diagnosis may be delayed. The characteristics of different pathogens causing cervical osteomyelitis are not fully understood, and there are few established guidelines for treatment. METHODS The cases of six patients who presented with primary cervical osteomyelitis in the orthopedic departm...