The Role of Classifications and Measurements of Kyphotic Angle in the Treatment Methods of Upper and Middle Thoracic Vertebral Fractures after Trauma.

Background And Aim: Thoracic fractures can lead to death and disability. This retrospective study aimed to evaluate cases of upper and middle thoracic vertebral fractures due to trauma that had been treated, to determine the fracture type and treatment method according to age, sex, cause of injury, neurological status, fracture level, kyphotic angles, and classification methods and to discuss the results regarding that reported in the literature.

Patients And Methods: This study included 238 patients who were evaluated for post-traumatic upper and middle thoracic vertebral fractures between January 2012 and December 2020.

Role of radiofrequency ablation and cement injection for pain control in patients with spinal metastasis.

Background: The study aimed to investigate the effects and reliability of simultaneous vertebroplasty and radiofrequency ablation or radiofrequency ablation applied alone for pain control in patients with painful spine metastasis, and to investigate the effect of preventing tumor spread in long-term follow-up.

Methods: Patients with painful vertebrae metastasis in the Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Medical Faculty, Hospital Neurosurgery Clinic between 01.01.

Acute Paraplegia due to Thoracic Hematomyelia.

Spontaneous intraspinal intramedullary hemorrhage is a rare entity with the acute onset of neurologic symptoms. The etiology of idiopathic spontaneous hematomyelia (ISH) is unknown, and there are few published case reports. Hematomyelia is mostly associated with trauma, but the other nontraumatic etiologies are vascular malformations, tumors, bleeding disorders, syphilis, syrinx, and myelitis.