Summary: Background: For thoracolumbar burst fractures with spinal canal compromise but no neurological deficit, is it necessary to perform additional laminectomy decompression after the currently accepted posterior pedicle-screw internal fixation ...
Lijie Yuan +7 more
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Defining clinically relevant values for developmental spinal stenosis: a large-scale magnetic resonance imaging study [PDF]
STUDY DESIGN: Case-control study. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to define clinically relevant relative and critical (absolute) magnetic resonance imaging values of lumbar spinal stenosis in a cohort of 100 surgical cases and 100 asymptomatic ...
Cheung, JPY +3 more
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Aim – to evaluate clinical and instrumental correlation (MRI data) in patients with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation complicated by spinal canal stenosis for optimizing the indications for differentiated surgical treatment. Materials and methods.
T. А. Ksenzov +3 more
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Lumbar ganglion cyst: Nosology, surgical management and proposal of a new classification based on 34 personal cases and literature review [PDF]
AIM To analyze different terms used in literature to identify lumbar extradural cysts and propose a common scientific terminology; to elaborate a new morphological classification of this pathology, useful for clinical and surgical purposes; and to ...
Delfini, Roberto +6 more
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Background: Spinal cord compression is a known cause of spinal cord injury. The purpose of this study is to measure pressure response during graded spinal cord compression.
Jonathan Bourget-Murray +4 more
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Verification Of Measurements Of Lumbar Spinal Dimensions In T1- And T2-weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequences [PDF]
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is commonly used to assess patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. No single MRI sequence has been shown to be superior in spinal canal measurements.
Cheung, JPY, Cheung, KMC, Shigematsu, H
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Establishment of the Lunar Phase Morphological Classification for Cervical Spinal Canal [PDF]
Study Design Retrospective clinical trial. Purpose To establish a morphological classification of the cervical spinal canal using its parameters. Overview of Literature Cervical spine computed tomography (CT) data of 200 healthy volunteers in 2 years ...
Zhongyi Cui +8 more
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Comparison between the coronal diameters of the cervical spinal canal and spinal cord measured using computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in Korean patients [PDF]
Background If the proportion of the spinal cord in the epidural space can be determined under C-arm fluoroscopy during cervical epidural block, a safe entry point for the epidural needle can be established.
So Young Lee +5 more
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Accuracy of Patient-Specific Organ Dose Estimates Obtained Using an Automated Image Segmentation Algorithm [PDF]
The overall goal of this work is to develop a rapid, accurate, and automated software tool to estimate patient-specific organ doses from computed tomography (CT) scans using simulations to generate dose maps combined with automated segmentation ...
Coradi, Thomas +4 more
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Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma, which mimicked aortic dissection.
Satoshi Inaba +3 more
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