Introduction: We investigated the effect of preoperative joint position sense in big toe on postoperative recovery gait function after spinal tumor surgery.

spinal cord injury (sci) as a destructive crash result in neurons degeneration. the sci lead to the onset of biochemical and molecular cascades such as inflammation that in turn has a key role in neurodegeneration development. the previous studies demonstrated the role of tnf-α and inos genes in intensifying the process after sci. as a consequence, these genes overexpression intensify the infla...

objective: lumbar spinal canal stenosis (lscs) has prominent position in spinal disorders of the elderly. ligamentum flavum hypertrophy plays a dominant role in narrowing of the lscs. there are some clues that ligamentum flavum hypertrophy is associated with diabetes mellitus. our objective was comparison of histological properties of ligamentum flavum in lumbar spinal canal stenosis patients w...

  Abstract   Meningeal melanocytoma is a rare tumor of nervous system, which originates from leptomeningeal   melanocytes. The locations of melanocytoma in the nervous system are most frequently in the posterior fossa or along the spinal cord, and usually appear as an extra-axial mass. The manifestations of tumor are most often due to its compressing effect on adjacent nervous structures that c...

Teratoma is a type of multipotential cell tumor, which includes a mixture of two or three germinal layers of ectodermis, endodermis, and mesodermis. Although neonatal sacrococcygeal teratoma has been frequently reported, its occurrence in older age is not common. In this study, we report a rare case of spinal intradural mature cystic teratoma in a 16-year-old male, emphasizing on considering th...

purpose: to report a case of spinal cord tumor with visual symptoms and papilledema due to increased intracranial pressure. patient and findings: a 24-year-old woman was referred because of recent blurred vision in both eyes. visual acuity was 20/25 and 20/20 in the right and left eyes, respectively. fundoscopy revealed bilateral papilledema. other ophthalmic examinations were normal. visual fi...

Solitary fibrous tumor is rare benign mesenchymal neoplasm. The spinal solitary fibrous tumor is extremely rare. The authors experienced a case of intramedullary solitary fibrous tumor of cervicothoracic spinal cord in a 48-year-old man with right lower extremity sensory disturbance. Spinal MRI showed intradural mass lesion in the level of C7-T1, the margin between the spinal cord and tumor was...