Management of the neglected and healed bilateral cervical facet dislocation.

Introduction: There is limited literature on the management of neglected healed (fused) bilateral cervical facet dislocation. The authors report a case of a middle aged male who developed a bilateral facet dislocation but only sought treatment 14 months post injury when he experienced pain and deformity in the cervical spine.

Case Report: A 42-year-old male was pushed into a 1.

Surgically treated cervical myelopathy: a functional outcome comparison study between multilevel anterior cervical decompression fusion with instrumentation and posterior laminoplasty.

Background Context: Multilevel cervical myelopathy can be treated with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) or corpectomy via the anterior approach and laminoplasty via the posterior approach. Till date, there is no proven superior approach.

Purpose: To elucidate any potential advantage of one approach over the other with regard to clinical midterm outcomes in this study.

Spontaneous cervical spinal epidural hematoma in the postpartum period.

Study Design: We present the case study of a 31-year-old lady who had a spontaneous cervical spinal epidural hematoma in the postpartum period and who presented with sudden onset of neck pain and lower limb weakness for which an emergency decompressive laminectomy was performed with neurological recovery.

Objective: To report on the spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma in the postpartum period, which is a rare complication during pregnancy and requires early recognition and expedient intervention to prevent permanent neurological sequelae.

Summary Of Background Data: This complication has been described only once previously in the postpartum period.

Intermediate Results of the Prestige LP Cervical Disc Replacement: Clinical and Radiological Analysis With Minimum Two-Year Follow-up.

Study Design: prospective study.

Objective: present results of Prestige LP artificial cervical disc replacement (ADR).

Summary Of Background Data: motion preservation with ADR can potentially reduce adjacent segment degeneration.

Concurrent fractures of the hip and wrist: a matched analysis of elderly patients.

Introduction: Osteoporotic fractures involving the hip and wrist are common in the elderly. The incidence of coincident hip and wrist fractures in the same patient is small but may represent a unique subpopulation of elderly with osteoporotic fragility fractures and little information has been published about these patients.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective review studying a series of 33 elderly patients who were admitted with concurrent hip and wrist fractures and matched them with patients of similar age, race, gender and co-morbidities with isolated hip fractures analysing their pre-morbid functional status, degree of osteoporosis by the Singh's index, length of stay and re-admission rate.

Disc regeneration: a glimpse of the future.

The normal IVD clinically acts to support and dissipate loads while permitting multiaxial motions of the spine. Its demanding mechanical function is provided by a well-defined microstructural organization and biochemical composition. IVD degeneration is a complex process that disrupts this well-defined organization and biochemical balance.