we evaluated the specific pattern of pre- and postoperative neurological signs and symptoms of cervical spondylotic myelopathy (csm) to determine [mdings which had a predictive value for surgical outcome. consecutive patients with csm caused by osteophytic ridge or intervertebral disc herniation who underwent anterior cervical decompression and fusion in loghman hakim hospital from 1999-2003 we...

bilateral vocal cord paralysis is a rare and preventable complication of anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. herein, we report a fatal case of bilateral vocal cord paralysis after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (acd/f). a 65-year-old man with cervical spine trauma and anterior cord syndrome, following car overturn presented to our emergency department. the patient had c6-t10 prola...

the structure of the sheep cervix limits the application of reproductive biotechnologies such as embryo transfer and artificial insemination. the aim of this study was to determine differences in cervical anatomy and morphology between sanjabi lambs and ewes, and the relationship between cervical anatomy and cervical penetration in ewes. four hundred and sixty eight postmortum cervices belongin...

objectives major differences exist in the anatomy and biomechanics of the growing spine that causes failure patterns different from those in adults. spinal injury in the pediatric patient is a main concern because timely diagnosis and appropriate treatment can prevent further neurologic damage and deformity and potentiate recovery. we conducted a retrospective clinical study of 137 cases (93 bo...

background & objectives: tumor diathesis (td) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. it is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. the aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of td in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. methods: cytological smears and histologi...

abstract background: cervical cancer is the most common female genital tract malignancy and is the major cause of death from gynecologic cancer worldwide. the majority of cervical cancers develop through a series of gradual, precancerous lesions. screening asymptomatic women with regular pap smears allows diagnosis of the readily treatable preinvasive phase. we performed this study to determine...

background with the advent of hystroscopic surgery, abnormalities confined to the uterine cavity such as endometrial polyps, submucous myomas, uterine septae and synechia , were supposed to be treated effectively. diagnostic hysteroscopy is the gold standard for investigating the intrauterine diseases as it allows for biopsy and removal of lesions. objectives forty premenopausal women without t...

our case was a 48-year-old man with cervical pain radiatingto the upper limbs. imaging showed an intradural tumor with extradural component encasing the vertebral artery.thetumor diagnosed asa neurinomaand had been removed surgically.the post operationmagnetic resonance imagingshowed that the tumor was completely removed andthe vertebral arterywas intact at theentire length.the goal of surgery ...

abstract our patient was a 43-year-old woman with a suboccipital headache and pain in the upper cervical region from 3 years ago with a progressive generalized weakness in the last 3 months. neuroimaging study showed a dumbell shaped lesion with compression of the spinal cord in the cervical region that was identified as a neurinoma. the tumor had been completely removed by surgery but after th...

wc studied the correlation between preoperative cervical cytology, postoperative clinicopathologic findings, and sites of metastasis from so surgically staged patients with endometrial carcinoma tliirty-faur patients (68%), liad normal cervical cytology, ami 16(32%) had malignant preoperative cervical cytology. malignant cervical smears were statistically correlated with surgical stage (p = 0.0...