A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

The spine contains many spaces, or foramen, that allow the spinal nerves to pass and travel to and from muscles and sensory nerve endings. A foraminotomy is a surgical procedure to widen those ...

In addition to PP, the accessory transverse foramen (ATF) is another variant that has garnered attention. A study examining 250 dry cervical vertebrae found that ATF was present in 8.4% of the ...

[40] The probe is navigated in the neural foramen in the superior dorsal quadrant ... to a great extent, by spinal cord stimulation. This section discusses RFA of the stellate ganglion and ...

Why do our nostrils point down while those of most mammals point straight out from their face? (cont.) ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC ... In such cases, there is direct extension of a paraspinal mass through the epidural foramen, and this extension produces the compression. Finally, metastasis ...

We also included assessment of cerebellar tonsil position in relation to the McRae line, indicating foramen magnum. Craniocervical obstructions were assessed on MRI of the cervical spine. Allodynia ...

Treatment included foramen magnum decompression and management of symptoms ... This delay contributed to the late diagnosis of BI and C1–C2 spinal cord compression. The patient presented with ...

A new brain MRI confirmed the diagnosis of SIH (figure 1A and B; Bern score 6); a spinal column MRI did not document CSF ... exposing the T8–T9 foramen where an arachnoid periradicular cyst was ...

In the spinal cord, the cysts can cause spinal cord compression ... system but the parasite may reach the brain either through the bloodstream or through the foramina at the base of the skull. The ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...