STUDY DESIGN A case report of nontraumatic acute complete paraplegia resulting from cervical disc herniation. OBJECTIVES To describe a rare case of nontraumatic paraplegia resulting from enlargement of a herniated disc in the cervical spine and to outline appropriate management of a patient with severe spinal cord compression secondary to disc herniation with developmental spinal canal stenos...

=Abstract=The authors have performed paraspinal needle EMG studies in twenty five patients with thoracic myelopathy. They were divided into demonstrable thoracic lesions and non-demonstrable thoracic lesions by neuroimaging studies resulting in 1 2 cases of the former and 13 cases of the latter. There were abnormal paraspinal EMG findings in 8 3 % with demonstrable thoracic lesions. All five pa...

Introduction: Chemoradiation is a well-established protocol for management of localized esophageal cancer. However, some early and late toxicities are associated with this therapy. Plan evaluation in term of normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) may help clinicians to tailor this therapy more individually. Given the variety of present radiobiological models, the choice...

From 2002 to 2005, a program of active search for patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis and schistosomal myeloradiculopathy has been implemented in the state of Minas Gerais by the local Health Department. The state was divided in 28 regional health centers and the local representatives have been trained to identify and direct patients with hepatosplenic schistosomiasis and neuroschistoso...

Serial spinal somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded in six patients undergoing radiotherapy involving incidental spinal radiation. Two patients developed transient radiation myelopathy. No abnormality was found in the somatosensory evoked potentials throughout the study.

Pseudarthrosis of a thirty-nine-year-old dens fracture causing myelopathy.

To determine the diagnostic value of bright spotty lesions (BSLs) for aquaporin-4 antibody-positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSDAQP4+), predictive axial-BSLs AQP4-IgG seropositivity, and radio-clinical differences in NMOSDAQP4+ patients with without axial-BSLs. Retrospective study that included aged ≥ 16 years, a first acute spinal cord syndrome between 2005 2018 abnormal MRI a...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is one of the most frequent comorbidities in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy. The purpose of this study was to characterize the risk factors for poor treatment outcome following cervical laminoplasty for cervical spondylotic myelopathy in patients with diabetes. METHODS A total of 105 consecutive patients with diabetes and cervical spondylotic myelopathy who ...

The course of cervical spondylotic myelopathy is slow, the surgical treatment difficult and effect general, it easy to cause decline patient’s quality life, even death. aim this study was compare efficacy anterior, posterior combined approaches in myelopathy. A total 105 patients were selected from orthopedics department our hospital January 2016 March 2019 according diagnosis exclusion criteri...

A 59-year-old man died following a 20-year history of fulminant chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). His symptoms began with gait unsteadiness and ascending severe weakness and paresthesias, followed by papilledema and compressive cervical myelopathy from hypertrophic nerve roots (figure). Initial aggressive immunotherapy resulted in a return to ambulation and emplo...