OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to analyze trends in domestic studies on pharmacopuncture therapy for treating cervical disease. METHODS This study was carried out on original copies and abstracts of theses listed in databases or published until July 2014. The search was made on the Oriental medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System (OASIS) the National Digital Science Library (ND...

Although cervical spine pathology is not recognized as a cause of low back pain (LBP), roughly one-third of patients with LBP also have neck pain. Our study examined whether management of cervical disk displacements reduces the severity and frequency of lower body pain and numbness in patients with lumbar symptoms and cervical spine lesions. Lower body symptoms were recorded before and after a ...

To investigate the outcomes and reliability of hybrid surgery (HS) versus anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) for the treatment of multilevel cervical spondylosis and disc diseases.Hybrid surgery, combining cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) with fusion, is a novel treatment to multilevel cervical degenerated disc disease in recent years. However, the effect and reliability of HS are s...

Three patients with cervical radicular symptoms and normal metrizamide myelograms underwent thin-section high-resolution computed tomographic scanning because of a strong clinical suspicion of herniated disk. Herniated disk was demonstrated in all three cases. In two, the disk protrusions were recognized only by computed tomographic myelography, and in the third case, the diagnosis was made wit...

We evaluated the therapeutic outcome of CT-guided ozone treatment for cervical disc herniation. All 86 patients with cervical spondylosis including myelopathy (37 cases), radiculopathy (30 cases), and sympathetic type (19 cases) were treated with ozone injection under CT guidance. The puncture route was anterolateral from the neck to the disk. A total of 2-7 ml of ozone at a concentration of 60...

This study is a retrospective analysis of 146 patients, 85 males and 61 females aged 21-80 years (mean 52 years), with cervical disk disease who underwent anterior fusion and titanium cage implantation with follow-up periods of no less than 72 months after surgery. All patients underwent the conventional anterior cervical approach. After removing the protruded disk and osteophyte, cylindrical t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chemonucleolysis represents a minimally invasive percutaneous technique characterized by an intradiskal injection of materials under fluoroscopic or CT guidance. Recently, a substance based on radiopaque gelified ethanol has been introduced. The purpose of this study was to describe the indications, procedure, safety, and efficacy of radiopaque gelified ethanol in the per...