OBJECTIVE In order to provide normal values of the pediatric sub-axial cervical spinal canal and vertebral body growth pattern using computed tomographic scans, a total of 318 patients less than 10 years old were included. METHODS The growth of the vertebral body and canal space was investigated using four different age groups. The Torg ratio (TR) was calculated and all patients were classifi...

Aim: The aim of our study; to investigate the location hypertrophy in epidural adipose tissue lumbar spinal stenosis clinic, compare area measurements canal and dural sac patients with a preliminary diagnosis or radiculopathy, determine place superior articular process measurement stenosis.
 Material Method: 180 aged 50-69 years who underwent Lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging were divided ...

Background: Obesity is likewise becoming more prevalent in patients with lumbar spinal canal stenosis, but few studies have examined relationships between obesity levels and surgical outcomes for this condition. The purpose of the present study is to determine the influence of body-mass index (BMI) on outcomes of surgery for lumbar spinal canal

The oblique sagittal diameter of the lumbar spinal canal was measured by diagnostic ultrasound in seventy-three patients with symptomatic disc lesions, and compared with measurements from 200 asymptomatic subjects. Results suggest that the available space in the spinal canal is highly significant in the symptomatology of disc lesions, and in the patient's response to treatment.

Pneumorrhachis is a rare phenomenon which may be caused by trauma, intracraneal infection, pneumomediastinum or iatrogenic factors. Presence of air in the spinal canal is reported in most cases. In this article, we report a case with PR in the spinal canal without any neurological deficit, which developed secondary to subcutaneous emphysema.

INTRODUCTION Accurate morphometric characterization of the lumbar spinal canal is important in understanding low back disorders such as lumbar spinal stenosis. Current conventional methods measuring the AP diameter of the canal, a common parameter for defining the canal, use practical and clinically available methods where patient CT scans are analyzed in 2D. This method, however, does not take...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Upper cervical spinal canal dimension may have a role in abnormal CSF dynamics in patients with Chiari I malformation. We attempted to measure spinal canal tapering from anteroposterior spinal canal dimensions in patients with Chiari I. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-one patients with Chiari I malformation, including 12 with syringomyelia and 7 patients with IS were ident...

BACKGROUND Publications concerning the shape of the spinal canal and degenerative changes in the intervertebral joints have not described this issue in full detail to date, especially with regard to the causes of pain syndromes associated with degenerative changes in intervertebral joints. The aim of the study was to assess the shape of the spinal canal and joint surface angles at L3, L4 and L5...