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Spinal anaesthesia for spinal surgery

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, 2003
Spinal anaesthesia for spinal surgery is becoming increasingly more popular because this anaesthetic technique allows the patient to self-position and avoid neurological injury that may occur with prone positioning under general anaesthesia. Spinal anaesthesia reduces intraoperative surgical blood loss, improves perioperative haemodynamic stability and
John F. Shea, W. Scott Jellish
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Spinal and spinal cord infection

European Radiology Supplements, 2004
This review article includes infections of the vertebral body, intervertebral disc, ligaments and paravertebral soft tissues, epidural space, meninges and subarachnoid space, and the spinal cord. A wide range of infective organisms may be implicated and the incidence of some, notably tuberculosis, is rising due to increased immunocompromise and other ...
Balériaux, Danielle, Neugroschl, Carine
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Spinal Metastasis and Spinal Tumors

2021
Spinal metastases are very common in patients with metastatic disease and are one of the most frequent causes of pain and disability in this patient group when the neoplastic process invades the bone and/or causes a fracture. Patients with spinal metastatic disease most often have a short life expectancy, so therapies that are minimally invasive and ...
Alvaro E. Bravo   +10 more
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Spinal infections

European Journal of Radiology, 2004
Spinal infections can be thought of as a spectrum of disease comprising spondylitis, discitis, spondylodiscitis, pyogenic facet arthropathy, epidural infections, meningitis, polyradiculopathy and myelitis. Radiological evaluations have gained importance in the diagnosis, treatment planning, treatment and treatment monitoring of the spinal infections ...
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Spinal Stabilization in Acute Spinal Injuries

Surgical Clinics of North America, 1980
Stabilization of acute spinal injuries is of prime importance in prevention of further neurologic compromise, prevention of late spinal deformity with associated risk of neurologic compromise, prevention of painful pseudarthrosis, and in maximizing rehabilitation.
John A. Ogden   +2 more
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Spinal hamartoma associated with spinal dysraphism

Child's Nervous System, 2005
The aims of the study were (1) to review the pathological findings of spinal lipomatous masses associated with congenital spinal dysraphism and (2) to discuss the pathological diagnosis.The pathological records of 47 patients at our institution were reviewed, and three illustrative cases were presented.Spinal tumorous lesions associated with spinal ...
Hironobu Sasano   +6 more
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Spinal Hemangiomas

Neurosurgery, 1983
Abstract Three new cases of spinal cord compression due to vertebral hemangioma are reported. The clinical presentation, with spinal pain, radicular radiation, and paraparesis, is similar to that of primary lymphoma, metastatic tumor, and disc disease. If the characteristic plain film changes of vertical trabeculations and striations are
M, Healy, D A, Herz, L, Pearl
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Evaluation of Spinal Ultrasound in Spinal Dysraphism

Clinical Radiology, 2003
The aims of this study were to evaluate the role of spinal ultrasound in detecting occult spinal dysraphism (OSD) in neonates and infants, and to determine the degree of agreement between ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings.Eighty-five consecutive infants had spinal ultrasound over 31 months.
Dominic Thompson   +3 more
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Spinal blocks

Pediatric Anesthesia, 2011
SummaryEvery anesthetist should have the expertise to perform lumbar puncture that is the prerequisite to induce spinal anesthesia. Spinal anesthesia is easy and effective technique: small amount of local anesthetic injected in the lumbar cerebrospinal fluid provides highly effective anesthesia, analgesia, and sympathetic and motor block in the lower ...
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Spinal Surgery in Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics, 1985
Fifteen patients with surgical treatment of spinal muscular atrophy were reviewed. The curve pattern was thoracic in 3, thoracolumbar in 11, and double thoracic and thoracolumbar in 1. Follow-up averaged 31 months. Eleven patients underwent posterior spinal fusion with Harrington instrumentation, with segmental wiring in four, and two had Luque ...
John E. Lonstein   +3 more
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