introduction:surgical treatment of diseases in cervicothoracic, thoracic and thoracolumbar regions can be a challenging issue. cooperation of the thoracic surgeons and spine surgeons can improve the outcomes and decrease the complications of patients who underwent these approaches.materials & methods: the participants of this study consisted of seventeenpatients suffering from different types o...

Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is a congenital developmental disorder of cervical spine, showing short neck with restricted neck motion, low hairline, and high thoracic cage due to multilevel cervical fusion. Radiculopathy or myelopathy can be accompanied. There were 2 patients who were diagnosed as KFS with exhibited radiological and physical characteristics. Both patients had stenosis and cord c...

We present a case of a 51-year-old man who was injured in a bicycle accident. His main injury was an unstable fracture of the cervical and thoracic vertebral column. Several hours after his arrival to the hospital the patient underwent open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) of the cervical and thoracic spine. The patient was hospitalized in our critical care unit for 99 days. During this t...

INTRODUCTION Orthodontic diagnosis includes the interpretation of the relations between the craniofacial and cervical system, given the potential impact of the irregularities from one system to another. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine morphological characteristics of the cervical spine, depending on the parameters of the vertical craniofacial growth and gender in adult subjects...

Dear Editor, Anterior cervical spine fusion and plate fixation is a valuable procedure for the treatment of cervical spinal injury, spondylitic disease and intervertebral disc diseases. Esophageal perforation is one of the rare but serious complications following anterior cervical spinal surgery. Esophageal injury is usually due to the surgical exposure or the foreign metallic implant which usu...

UNLABELLED The results of surgical treatment of 12 patients with rheumatoid cervical spine arthritis were reviewed. The Ranawat classification was as follows: 5 with Ranawat IIIB, 1 Ranawat IIIA and 6 Ranawat II. Decompression and fusion using autogenous iliac bone graft and double occipitospinal plate fixation was carried out on 11 of these patients; the remaining patient underwent upper cervi...

STUDY DESIGN Randomized laboratory cadaver study. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the accuracy of anterior transpedicular screw placement in the cervical spine using conventional fluoroscopy versus computer-assisted navigation. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Traditionally, global cervical instability has required anterior and posterior fixation due to the superior biomech...