BACKGROUND laminectomy is a valuable surgical treatment for some patients with a cervical radiculomyelopathy due to cervical spinal stenosis. More recently attention has been given to motion of the spinal cord over spondylotic spurs as a cause of myelopathic changes. Immobilisation by fusion could have a positive effect on the recovery of myelopathic signs or changes. This has never been invest...

BACKGROUND Loss of cervical lordosis is a significant factor in the development of degeneration of the spine with aging. This degenerative changings of the cervical spine would cause pressure effect on the cervical root and/or medulla spinalis. AIM Our goal is to understand the effect of the PEEK cage on cervical lordosis in the early postoperative period. Also, to interpret the effects of on...

Introduction: This study evaluated the safety and effectiveness of Dynamic Cervical Implants (DCI) as a form of dynamic instrumentation to treat single level cervical disc disease. This is a prospective case study of 15 consecutive patients, treated by the author, with single level cervical disc disease. Study duration was 3 years from October 2009 to October 2012. These 15 cases included 10 me...

BACKGROUND Ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) is being increasingly recognized as a cause of thoracic myelopathy. This study was to describe a rare clinical entity of spinal cord kinking (SK) in thoracic myelopathy secondary to OLF. METHODS The data of 95 patients with thoracic myelopathy secondary to OLF were analyzed retrospectively. The incidence and location of SK were determined...

Cervical spondylosis is common condition rarely associated with radiculomyelopathy which surgical treatment, according to meta-analysis, is not better than nonsurgical. Our hypothesis was that neurodecompression which type is chosen according to spinal alignment should result in better functional improvement comparing with nonsurgical treatment. Between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2007 a t...

The development of selective spinal angiography in the early 1960s permitted assessment of the vascular anatomy of spinal cord arteriovenous malformations (SCAVMs). Subsequently, these lesions were classified as type 1-single-coiled vessel type; type 11-Glomus type; and type llljuvenile type ( 1 ). The type I single-coiled vessel malformations were recognized as slow-flow shunts, in extramedull...