Study Design: Prospective cohort study. Purpose: To assess the ability of a stand-alone lumbar interspinous implant (interspinous/interlaminar lumbar instrumented fu sion, ILIF) associated with bone grafting to promote posterior spine fusion in degenerative spondylolisthesis (DS) with vertebral instability. Overview of Literature: A few studies, using bilateral laminotomy (BL) or bilateral deco...

INTRODUCTION Polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) is a common inflammatory disease in older people characterized by shoulder and/or pelvic girdle, and cervical and, occasionally, lumbar pain. Interspinous bursitis has been suggested as a potential cause of spinal symptoms. We evaluated, by 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography integrated with computed tomography (PET/CT), the verte...

PURPOSE To assess the safety and effectiveness of a novel, minimally invasive interspinous spacer in patients with moderate lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS). METHODS A total of 53 patients (mean age, 70 ± 11 years; 45% female) with intermittent neurogenic claudication secondary to moderate LSS, confirmed on imaging studies, were treated with the Superion(®) Interspinous Spacer (VertiFlex, Inc, Sa...

Ankylosing spondylitis poses several anesthetic challenges ranging from difficult airway to neuraxial blockade. Limited cervical spine mobility, restricted opening of the temporomandibular joint, and cardiorespiratory compromise makes anesthesia preferred technique in these patients. However due ossification interspinous ligament ligamentum flavum, also syndesmophytes between adjacent vertebrae...

Annotation. Malignant and benign skin neoplasms are multifactorial diseases, the development of which is perhaps most related to environmental factors. The search for constitutional markers predicting occurrence these cancers has become one promising areas research in field oncology. aim study was establish features transverse body sizes Ukrainian men with nevi. In (aged 22-35 years) nevi (mela...

BACKGROUND Previous clinical studies have documented successful neck pain relief in whiplash patients using nerve block and radiofrequency ablation of facet joint afferents, including capsular ligament nerves. No previous study has documented injuries to the neck ligaments as determined by altered dynamic mechanical properties due to whiplash. The goal of the present study was to determine the ...

In a recent contribution to this journal,Camellino and colleagues [1] reported that asymptomatic inflammation of the interspinous bursas is a common occurrence in patients with polymyalgia rheumatica. Thus, they confirm the findings of three other studies which found florid inflammation (which was felt to be symptomatic) at these sites between the spinous processes of adjacent vertebrae. Why wo...