Calcinosis is a well-recognized manifestation of systemic sclerosis. Paraspinal or intraspinal calcinosis is rare, with reports of calcinosis involving the cervical, thoracic and lumbar separately, but not together. We now report a case of limited cutaneous scleroderma with extensive paraspinal calcinosis of the cervical and lumbar spine.

The biomechanical advantages to a load sharing anterior lumbar construct have not been debated. The development of a technique to place such a construct has gone through an evolution through PLIF, to open ALIF, to endoscopic ALIF. Recently the technique of a direct lateral mini-open approach has been popularized through the development of better retraction, improved visibility, and superior res...

BACKGROUND Lumbar disc herniation is a common and costly problem. Moxibustion is employed to relieve symptoms and might therefore act as a therapeutic alternative. Many studies have already reported encouraging results in heat-sensitive moxibustion for lumbar disc herniation. Hence, we designed a randomized controlled clinical trial to investigate the effectiveness of heat-sensitive moxibustion...

THE MULTITUDE of factors involved in the etiology of the post-lumbar puncture headache (PPH) were surveyed in a previous monograph.1 That study indicated several factors to be of prime importance, including needle size, sex, and age. The present study was designed to evaluate. more precisely the effect of needle size on the production of the PPH. Sex differences in the incidence of PPH are also...

OBJECTIVE This article aimed to analyze the neurosurgical results of 500 patients treated with microdiscectomies and 500 patients treated with percutaneous laser disc decompression. BACKGROUND DATA It has been suggested in the literature that percutaneous laser disc decompression might be considered a serious and valid alternative to microdiscectomy in the treatment of patients with discogeni...

Methods This is a cohort of 43 patients (all female) with AIS who underwent posterior spine fusion. The patients were divided into two group which were thoracic curve group (n=30, Lenke 1, 2, 3, 4) with a mean age of 14.6 years and a mean Cobb angle of 54° and lumbar/thoraco-lumbar group (n=14, Lenke 5, 6) with a mean age of 14.6 years and a mean Cobb angle of 56° Each was compared for preopera...

STUDY DESIGN Prospective study. PURPOSE We compared the effects of two methods of epidural steroid injection in patients with recurrent disc herniation. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE To our knowledge, there is no previous report of such a comparison in these patients. METHODS The study was performed with 30 patients with relapsed lumbar disc herniation whose pain was not relieved by conservative...

Rostrocaudal progression in the development of periodic spontaneous activity in fetal rat spinal motor circuits in vitro. Developmental changes in the periodic spontaneous bursts in cervical and lumbar ventral roots (VRs) were investigated using isolated spinal cord preparations obtained from rat fetuses at embryonic days (E) 13.5-18. 5. Spontaneous bursts were observed in the cervical VR at E1...

Background: Osteoporosis is one of the most common problems in the women, especially after menopause and at the old age. Bone densitometry of vertebrae of lumbar region and femoral neck is a non invasive and precise method for evaluation of bone mass density (BMD) and determination of fracture risk. Materials and Method: from different districts of Ahvaz city, more than 300 healthy men and wo...