The objective of this GLP study was to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Adherus Dural Sealant and Adherus Spinal Sealant when used to achieve watertight dural closure in a canine lumbar durotomy repair model. Another important objective of this study was to determine whether Adherus Dural and Adherus Spinal Sealants would inhibit the formation of peridural fibrosis and dural adhesions a...

Spinal cord and spinal dural blood flow in the cervical, thoracic and lumbosacral regions were measured in dogs using the radioactive microsphere technique. Measurements were taken before and 20 and 40 minutes after lumbar subarachnoid injection of one of the following: physiologic saline; tetracaine 20 mg or tetracaine 20 mg with epinephrine 200 micrograms. No significant change in spinal cord...

Iatrogenic spinal cord herniation is a rare complication following spinal surgery. We introduce a posterior trans-dural repair technique used in a case of thoracic spinal cord herniation through a ventral dural defect following resection of ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL) in the cervicothoracic spine. A 51-year-old female was suffering from paraplegia after laminectom...

A. El-Serwi A. Maubon J. Vidal R. Chapot SUMMARY: We present a patient with double spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas revealed by progressive myelopathy. Numerous dilated veins extending along the entire length of the spinal cord were found on MR imaging. Angiography showed a first spinal dural fistula at the level of T7 with descending venous drainage and a second spinal dural fistula at the ...

Abstracts: Dural ectasia is circumferential expansion or dilatation of the dural sac, and has been frequently reported in association with type 1 neurofibromatosis (NF1). It should be differentiated from posterior mediastinal tumors such as neurofibroma, neuroblastoma, and ganglioneuroma because NF-1 has a high risk of tumor formation. In the spinal deformities of NF-1 patients, despite the sco...

To cite: Hirose K, Hirosawa T, Shimizu T. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2017219625 DESCRIPTION A man aged 37 years presented with hip osteoarthritis with avascular femoral head necrosis due to chronic alcohol use. He had spinal arteriovenous fistula (AVF) which was diagnosed with spinal angiography (figure 1A, B) and spinal MRI (figure 2) 30 year...

STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the correlation of the cervical canal and spinal cord size, and evaluate whether the size of the spinal cord relative to the spinal canal is a risk factor for development of cervical spinal cord compression (SCC). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA There is little knowledge regarding the relationship between cervical bon...