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Spinal Manifestations of Systemic Disease

Radiologic Clinics of North America, 2019
The spine is frequently involved in systemic diseases, including those with neuropathic, infectious, inflammatory, rheumatologic, metabolic, and neoplastic etiologies. This article provides an overview of systemic disorders that may affect the spine, which can be subdivided into disorders predominantly involving the musculoskeletal system (including ...
Sean C, Dodson, Nicholas A, Koontz
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Spinal Decompensation in Neuromuscular Disease

Spine, 2006
In this retrospective radiography study, we analyzed curve shape and direction in scoliosis secondary to neuromuscular disease.To determine if in different types of neuromuscular scoliosis a predominant curve pattern can be found and if similarities with idiopathic scoliosis exist.To the authors' knowledge, systematic analysis of curve patterns in ...
Jan-Willem M, Kouwenhoven, Peter M, Van Ommeren, Hans E J, Pruijs, René M, Castelein   +3 more
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Vascular Diseases of the Spinal Cord

Neurologic Clinics, 2013
Vascular disease affecting the spinal can cause substantial neurologic morbidity. Several vascular spinal cord ailments present as neurologic emergencies, and should thus be recognizable to the practicing neurologist. We review the epidemiology, presentation, management strategies, and prognosis of various pathologies, including infarction, dural ...
Mark N, Rubin, Alejandro A, Rabinstein
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The approach to spinal disease in dogs

British Veterinary Journal, 1985
Abstract Conditions affecting the bony structures of the body always have a soft tissue component which must be considered. In the case of the vertebral column the related soft tissues are of a special nature, i.e. part of the central and peripheral nervous systems.
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Spinal involvement in Pyle's disease

Pediatric Radiology, 2000
Pyle's disease is a rare skeletal dysplasia involving the metaphyses of long bones. To date, spinal involvement has been only rarely described in the literature.To show that spinal changes, which are an expression of the same growth defect of the long bones, are an important and constant sign of the disease in the families studied.The radiographic ...
S, Turra, C, Gigante, G, Pavanini, C, Bardi   +3 more
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Spinal Hydatid Cyst Disease

World Neurosurgery, 2017
A hydatic cyst (HC) is a zoonotic infection affecting the liver and lungs, with rare spinal involvement. We discuss the long-term results in 8 patients with spinal HC who were monitored at our clinic for 7 to 15 years.The demographic data and clinicopathologic characteristics of 8 patients with spinal HC diagnosed between 2000 and 2016 were evaluated ...
Yurdal, Gezercan, Ali Ihsan, Ökten, Gökhan, Çavuş, Vedat, Açık, Emre, Bilgin   +4 more
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Approach to the Patient with Spinal Disease

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 1992
The approach to the patient suspected of having spinal disease should be methodical to assure an accurate diagnosis that is cost-effective with minimal risk to the patient. Using a problem-oriented approach will facilitate attaining this goal. A neurologic examination should enable the veterinarian to localize to one of four spinal cord segments or the
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Spinal Empyema in Crohnʼs Disease

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1990
A 19-year-old man with a 1-year history of Crohn's disease of the ileum and rectosigmoid developed back and leg pain with neurological deficits. He proved to have an epidural and subdural spinal empyema originating from a rectal fistula. Drainage of the empyema, a diverting sigmoid colostomy, and appropriate antibiotics allowed full recovery of ...
S, Hershkowitz, R, Link, M, Ravden, K, Lipow   +3 more
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Imaging in Spinal Vascular Disease

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America, 2007
Spinal vascular diseases are rare and constitute only 1% to 2% of all vascular neurologic pathologies. In this article, the following vascular pathologies of the spine are described: spinal arterial infarcts, spinal cavernomas, and arteriovenous malformations (including perimedullary fistulae and glomerular arterivenous malformations), and spinal dural
Timo, Krings, Pierre L, Lasjaunias, Franz J, Hans, Michael, Mull, Robbert J, Nijenhuis, Hortensia, Alvarez, Walter H, Backes, Marcus H T, Reinges, Georges, Rodesch, Joachim M, Gilsbach, Armin K, Thron   +10 more
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Spinal actinomycosis: A rare disease

Neurology India, 2010
Actinomycosis is an indolent, slowly progressive infection caused by Actinomyces species. Of human actinomycosis, the spinal form is rare and actinomycosis-related spinal neurological deficit is uncommon. We report two cases with cervical and dorsal actinomycosis and one of them with spinal neurological deficit.
Dua, Rakesh K., Bhat, Dhananjaya I., Indira, Devi B.   +2 more
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