Morphometric Analysis of Dry Typical Thoracic Vertebrae: A Cross sectional Study from Telangana, India [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Morphometric measurements of dry typical thoracic vertebrae play an important role clinically in managing scoliosis, performing laminectomies, guiding pedicle screw fixation, and in designing spinal implants or prostheses for ...
BH Shiny Vinila +3 more
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Multilevel cervical laminectomy and fusion with posterior cervical cages
Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine, 2017 Context: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a progressive disease that can result in significant disability. Single-level stenosis can be effectively decompressed through either anterior or posterior techniques. However, multilevel pathology can be
Jad N Bou Monsef, Krzysztof B Siemionow
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Diagnostic dilemma in acute neurological presentation of spinal arachnoid cysts: A case report
Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 BackgroundSpinal arachnoid cysts are relatively uncommon, cerebrospinal fluid-filled sacs formed by arachnoid membranes that can be either idiopathic or acquired. The neurological presentation of these cysts is varied. Advances in imaging techniques have
Swati Jain +4 more
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Ancient Schwannoma of the Cauda Equina: our experience and review of the literature [PDF]
, 2016 Ancient schwannomas (AS) are exceedingly rare variant of common schwannomas (CS). Only two cases involving the cauda equina region have been previously reported in literature.
Caruso, Riccardo +5 more
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Treatment of the Fractional Curve of Adult Scoliosis With Circumferential Minimally Invasive Surgery Versus Traditional, Open Surgery: An Analysis of Surgical Outcomes. [PDF]
, 2018 Study Design:Retrospective, multicenter review of adult scoliosis patients with minimum 2-year follow-up. Objective:Because the fractional curve (FC) of adult scoliosis can cause radiculopathy, we evaluated patients treated with either circumferential ...
Anand, Neel +18 more
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Rare morbidity of permanent quadriplegia caused by neurenteric cyst of the cervical cord
Avicenna Journal of Medicine, 2019 The incidence of neurenteric cyst (NC) is rare, accounting for 0.3%–1.3% of all spine tumors. The occurrence of quadriplegia caused by NC is even scarcer.
Henry Tan Chor Lip +3 more
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Early phrenic motor neuron loss and transient respiratory abnormalities following unilateral cervical spinal cord contusion [PDF]
, 2013 Contusion-type cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is one of the most common forms of SCI observed in patients. In particular, injuries targeting the C3-C5 region affect the pool of phrenic motor neurons (PhMNs) that innervates the diaphragm, resulting in ...
Adriaens, Dominique +8 more
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Potent spinal parenchymal AAV9-mediated gene delivery by subpial injection in adult rats and pigs. [PDF]
, 2016 Effective in vivo use of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based vectors to achieve gene-specific silencing or upregulation in the central nervous system has been limited by the inability to provide more than limited deep parenchymal expression in adult ...
Ahrens, Eric T +14 more
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Frontiers in Surgery, 2022 ObjectivesTo compare the efficacy of posterior decompression techniques with conventional laminectomy for lumbar spinal stenosis.MethodsThe Embase, PubMed, and Cochrane Library databases were searched with no language limitations from inception to ...
Yong Zhang +6 more
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Biportal Endoscopic Posterior Thoracic Laminectomy for Thoracic Spondylotic Myelopathy Caused by Ossification of the Ligamentum Flavum: Technical Developments and Outcomes [PDF]
Neurospine, 2023 Objective Advanced biportal endoscopic surgery techniques can be used to treat thoracic myelopathy secondary to ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF).
Ji Yeon Kim +6 more
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