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Surgical management of Gorham disease involving the upper cervical spine with occipito-cervical-thoracic fusion: a case report

, 2016
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Gorham disease is a rare osteolytic condition, with only 17 reported cases primarily affecting the cervical spine. PURPOSE: We report the case of a 31-year-old woman with severe kyphotic instability and myelopathy of the upper ...
Zhou, Feifei, Allen, Abigail, Schell, Adam, Andras, Lindsay, Rhee, John M.   +4 more
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Primary B-cell Lymphoma of the Thoracic Spine: a rare cause of Spinal Cord Compression

, 2021
Primary non-Hodgkin lymphoma arising from the spine is exceedingly rare. Spinal cord compression can be the first presentation of a patient with primary spinal non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Chooi, Asmah Hanim, Awang, Mohd Shukrimi, Chooi, Leng Low, Zakaria@Mohamad, Zamzuri, Kow, Ren Yi   +4 more
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Clinical Validation of Plasma p‐217tau in Neurological Diseases

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Plasma p‐217tau is a minimally invasive but specific biomarker for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, its disease specificity remains to be clinically evaluated. We validated the reliability of the p‐217tau biomarker in 12 other neurological diseases.
Takeshi Kawarabayashi, Takumi Nakamura, Ryoma Takahashi, Tetsuya Ueda, Seiji Kinoshita, Chikage Uchida, Takashi Sugawara, Kentaro Hashimoto, Kunihiko Ishizawa, Masakuni Amari, Hiroo Kasahara, Yoshio Ikeda, Masamitsu Takatama, Mikio Shoji   +13 more
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Congenital Kyphosis in Thoracic Spine Secondary to Absence of Two Thoracic Vertebral Bodies [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Congenital thoracic kyphosis at D6-D7 vertebral body level has been encountered in an 18-month-old boy without neurological deficit. The constellation of the spine malformation complex such as incomplete development of the vertebral bodies associated ...
Priya Kale, A. Dhawas, S. Kale, A. Tayade, S. Thakre   +4 more
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Reliability of lumbar spinal palpation, range of motion, and determination of position

, 2007
Background The study purposes were to investigate the level of agreement of palpation of lumbar spinous processes between examiners, test-retest repeatability of lumbar spine range of motion, and the reliability of upright position measures in ...
Petersen, Cheryl M., Michael Troke, Dale Schuit, Troke, Michael, Schuit Dale, Troke Michael, Petersen Cheryl M, Schuit, Dale, Cheryl M Petersen   +8 more
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SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza, Arun Meyyazhagan, Eliseo Picchi, Gustavo Ribas, Ingrid Faber, Ryosuke Miyamoto, Preethi Basavaraju, Paolo Eusebi, Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla, Mario Stasi, Fabrizio Gaudiello, Francesco Patti, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Marcondes Cavalcante França Jr, José Luiz Pedroso, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Peter Henry St George‐Hyslop, Toshitaka Kawarai, Antonio Orlacchio   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endoscopic Access to the Ventral Thoracic spine: PETD vs. Thoracoscopy

, 2018
Symptomatic thoracic disc herniation (TDH) is estimated to afflict between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in 1,000,000 people; affecting men more frequently than women, with the highest incidence seen at 40-50 years of age.
Le, Jun Ho
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Ofatumumab in Myelin Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein Antibody–Associated Disease: A Comparison With Rituximab

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of ofatumumab in patients with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody–associated disease (MOGAD), and compare it with rituximab. Methods We conducted a single–center, observational study including 22 MOGAD patients treated with ofatumumab and 21 treated with rituximab.
Yuxin Fan, Lei Zhou, Jingzi ZhangBao, Hongmei Tan, Zhouzhou Wang, Chao Quan   +5 more
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Early Clinical, Imaging, and Pathological Characteristics of SRPK3/TTN‐Digenic Myopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy was recently established as a skeletal muscle myopathy caused by digenic inheritance. This study characterizes the early clinical presentation of SRPK3/TTN‐digenic myopathy in one previously reported and seven newly identified pediatric patients.
Rotem Orbach, Sandra Donkervoort, Carola Hedberg‐Oldfors, Giovanni Baranello, Dimah Saade, Precilla D'Souza, Ruchee Patel, Eva Michael, A. Reghan Foley, Diana Bharucha‐Goebel, S. Jin Haugland, Meghan McAnally, Omer Abdul Hamid, Katherine Chao, Ellen F. Macnamara, Alan H. Beggs, Anna Sarkozy, Juliane Mueller, Steven A. Moore, Richard S. Finkel, Cynthia J. Tifft, Francesco Muntoni, Anders Oldfors, Carsten G. Bönnemann   +23 more
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Comparison of Anterior Spinal Bridging and Sagittal Spinal Parameters in Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis and Axial Spondylitis: A Multicenter Study

Spine Surgery and Related Research
Introduction: To evaluate the differences in anterior spinal bridging and sagittal spinal parameters between patients with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) using whole-spine computed tomography (CT). Methods:
Takuya Takahashi, Kanji Mori, Shigeto Kobayashi, Hisashi Inoue, Kurisu Tada, Naoto Tamura, Takashi Hirai, Yu Matsukura, Satoru Egawa, Satoshi Tamura, Narihito Nagoshi, Satoshi Maki, Keiichi Katsumi, Masao Koda, Kazuma Murata, Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Hiroaki Nakashima, Shiro Imagama, Yoshiharu Kawaguchi, Toshitaka Yoshii   +19 more
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