Treatment of communicating hydrocephalus by a lumbo-omental shunt: case report.

Based on preliminary experiences from the early 1970s, a patient with chronic and severe communicating hydrocephalus has been successfully treated with transposition of an omental pedicle to the lumbar subarachnoidal space. This patient, who suffered from congenital toxoplasmosis, at the age of 29 years had undergone no fewer than 82 shunt revisions. In the 5-year follow-up after treatment, she has had no further surgery or other treatment.

Reduced pain after surgery for cervical disc protrusion/stenosis: a 2 year clinical follow-up.

Purpose: To follow the clinical outcome after surgery for cervical radiculopathy caused by degenerative cervical disc disease and to compare it with the outcome after conservative treatment.

Method: Forty-three patients all awaiting surgery were studied prospectively. A control group of 39 conservatively treated patients were chosen, matched for gender and age.

Rigid fusion after cloward operation for cervical disc disease using autograft, allograft, or xenograft: a randomized study with radiostereometric and clinical follow-up assessment.

Study Design: In this study, 43 patients scheduled for a single-level cervical Cloward procedure for disc disease were randomized prospectively to fusion with autograft, allograft, or xenograft.

Objective: To outline any differences in fusion over time in terms of final mobility and clinical outcome between the three bone grafts.

Summary Of Background Data: Fusion is used to relieve pain from a spinal segment.

[Spectrum of sequelae after whiplash injury. Localization and development in relation to the clinical picture].

Neck sprain, a common sequela of motor vehicle trauma, is characterised by soft tissue lesions in the facet joints (the capsule), cervical discs (the annulus), ligaments, muscles, and sometimes in the nerve roots or the central nervous system. The cardinal manifestation of whiplash injury is neck pain, which may arise from any innervated part of the injured joints or muscles except the disc nucleus, the articular surface of facet joints, or the flaval ligaments. Pain may be referred to the skin or muscles via the respective sensory nerves.