Publications by authors named "Alfredo Sicoli"
Article Synopsis
- Degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis is caused by changes in the spine due to osteoarthritis, leading to reduced spinal canal size and potential compression of the spinal cord or nerves, resulting in leg pain and other neurological symptoms.
- First-line treatment focuses on conservative measures like physical therapy and spinal injections, but if ineffective, surgical options like decompression are recommended, with various techniques available based on the severity of the condition.
- The spinous process splitting laminectomy technique offers advantages such as less postoperative pain and a shorter learning curve for surgeons, demonstrated in a case study of a 74-year-old patient with severe bilateral stenosis.
Partial Sacrectomy for Resection of a Sacral Chordoma: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.
Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown)
September 2020
Sacral chordomas are infrequent tumors that arise from remnants of the notochord. They are most often found in the sacrum and skull-base.1,2 These lesions rarely metastasize and usually have an indolent and oligosymptomatic clinical course.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess and describe spinal and pelvic sagittal parameters in a series of 100 Argentinian volunteers.
Methods: Lateral full-spine X-rays were obtained prospectively from 100 volunteers (30 males and 70 females), average age 34.1 years.
Background: Spine fractures may involve the ligamentum flavum (LF). Here, we utilized the "ligamentum flavum gap," defined by the discontinuity of the LF at the level of a vertebral fracture, to document a vertebral fracture.
Methods: Utilizing X-rays, computed tomography (CT), and magnetic resonance (MR) studies, 10 patients with type B vertebral fractures were diagnosed with the ligamentum flavum gap (LFG: discontinuity of the LF) at the fracture levels.