A potential overreliance on new technology, the lack of standardization and long-term data and underappreciation of global spinal alignment are three of the most overlooked issues in spine care and ...

Only rarely, however, does such a hemangioma cause spinal-cord compression. Myelocompression by hemangioma of the cervical vertebral ... and posteroanterior and lateral films of the chest were ...

Possible causes of radial nerve compression include: Cervical radiculopathy describes the pinching of a spinal nerve root. Insofar as the thumb is concerned, the compression involves the C6 nerve.

Cervical cancer leads to approximately 685 deaths a year in England and most cervical cancer cases (99.8%) are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) virus. By increasing equitable uptake of both ...

Jenkins III, a neurosurgeon in New York City who specializes in spinal surgery. Doing all three actions at once, whether by shoveling snow or extracting a child from a car seat, “maximizes the ...

Navi Mumbai: Doctors have warned of a significant rise in cervical spine problems among Mumbai’s local train commuters. The city’s local trains, which serve as a lifeline for millions of ...

Objective: This case report describes the surgical management of a recumbent silkworm-like paravertebral schwannoma in the lumbar spine resected via the lateral retroperitoneal approach. Methods: A ...

This operative approach can retain the integrity of the structures of spine and should be considered the ideal approach for cervical dumbbell neuromas. This study uses the imaging characteristics of ...

Together, the brain and spinal cord that extends from it make up the central nervous system, or CNS. What is the brain made of? Weighing about 3 pounds in the average adult, the brain is about 60% fat ...

Here, we studied the convergence of signals directing trajectory selection of spinal motor axons entering the limb ... limb mesenchyme Netrin-1 is a bifunctional effector, attracting lateral LMC and ...