[The extent of temperature sense and pain appreciation recovery in the dermatomes of cauda equine roots after lumbar intervertebral dischernia elimination].

Temperature sense and pain appreciation has been studied in the dermatomes of cauda equine roots in patients with lumbar intervertebral disc hernia before treatment, in the immediate and long-term periods of observation after disc hernia elimination. Temperature sense and pain appreciation has been determined to be disordered not only in the dermatome of compressed root, but in the dermatomes located proximally and distally as well. The manifestation of negative changes was observed to a greater extent during temperature sense examination.

Kümmell' s disease: A rare spine entity in a young adult.

Over 100 years ago, Dr Hermann Kümmell described a rare clinical entity in which patients, after a trivial trauma and an asymptomatic period, developed a progressive vertebral body collapse and a painful kyphosis. We present the case of a 31years old heavy labourer, fitting Kümmell's criteria. The patient referred to us in an incapacitated state, due to persistent back pain.

[Role of computed tomography in the estimation of the density of the bony block of an injured vertebral column segment at different stages of treatment with an external transpedicular fixation apparatus].

A Somatom AR.HP computed tomograph (Siemens) was used to make studies in 54 patients with injury to the vertebral column and spinal cord in order to determine the formation of a bony block and its density in different portions of an injured segment at the stages of treatment. During therapy, the highest values of bony block density were observed in the dorsal portions of an injured segment (mean 377.