Publications by authors named "Bogdan Blaszczyk"

Background. The authors report their own experience with percutaneous vertebroplasty. Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a technique which allows to inject acrylic surgical cement into the vertebral body.

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Background. The authors report their own experience with percutaneous vertebroplasty. This is minimally invasive method indicated in treatment of certain spinal lesions affecting the vertebral bodies, as osteoporotic fractures, angiomas, neoplasms.

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Background. Percutaneous vertebroplasty involves the injection of acrylic surgical cement into the vertebral body. The basic principles of vertebroplasty and the authors' own clinical experiences are described.

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We report the case of patient with rheumatoid arthritis treated by sulfasalazin. He was hospitalized because of general erythrodermia and diarrhoea with dysproteinemia. The consciousness disturbances and the meningitis syndrome occured in the course of disease.

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The authors describe a case of a judo sportsman with a cervical spine injury sustained 21 years earlier. The injury initiated characteristic sensations of severe generalized pain with paraesthesias recurring whenever he was hit on the top of the head. In February 2001 the patient fell on his head, which resulted in tetraplegia with a complete sensory loss.

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This retrospective single-patient case report deals with a rare form of spinal trauma, i.e. atlantoaxial rotatory subluxation.

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The brachial plexus is a primary site of tumours originating from peripheral nervous system, such as neurilemmoma and neurofibroma. Moreover, the brachial plexus is affected by various neoplasms spreading from the neighbouring anatomic structures. Surgical treatment of neoplasms provoking plexopathy is often realised by multidisciplinary teams.

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Developmental abnormalities or inflammatory disorders provoke deformations and instability of the craniocervical junction. The most dangerous results of these lesions are: sudden brainstem compression or cervical myelopathy. The authors propose the guidelines for surgical management of non-traumatic deformities caused by: a) rheumatoid arthritis of the spine, b) congenital anatomic changes of the occipit and odontoid.

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