AIM To assess use of demineralized bone matrix (DBM) use in anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) in outpatient setting. METHODS One hundred and forty-five patients with prospectively collected data undergoing single and two level ACDF with DBM packed within and anterior to polyetheretherketone (PEEK) cages. Two groups created, Group 1 (75) outpatients and control Group 2 (70) hospit...

OBJECTIVE Traumatic atlanto-occipital dislocation (AOD) results from high energy trauma and is an uncommon and usually fatal injury due to an injury to the cervicomedullary junction. Recently, improved prehospital management, early diagnosis and effective treatment led to increasing reports of survival. This study of patients with AOD initial imaging modalities recognizes the clinical features ...

A 54-year-old man was referred to our center with complaint of dysphagia since 1 year ago. Before admission to our center, esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) had been done by general internist, which was reported normal. The patient had mentioned discomfort with solid and liquid diets. He suffered from cough and sometimes nausea during swallowing. Nasal regurgitation was not reported. Because of ...

Three patients with the diagnosis of acute calcific prevertebral tendinitis underwent CT or a combination of CT and MR imaging, which showed previously described findings of calcifications within the tendons of the longus colli muscles. In addition, however, we detected a retropharyngeal effusion in all three patients. The importance of this finding lies in the need to differentiate this effusi...

A 37-year-old woman with a skull base infection sustained massive oropharyngeal bleeding after incisional nasopharyngeal biopsy and drainage of a prevertebral abscess. A pseudoaneurysm originating at the petrous portion of the internal carotid artery was initially misinterpreted on MR images as typical postoperative change within a resolving abscess cavity. Follow-up MR imaging and conventional...