High-impact chronic pain: evaluation of risk factors and predictors.

Background: The concept of high-impact chronic pain (HICP) has been proposed for patients with chronic pain who have significant limitations in work, social life, and personal care. Recognition of HICP and being able to distinguish patients with HICP from other chronic pain patients who do not have life interference allows the necessary measures to be taken in order to restore the physical and emotional functioning of the affected persons. The aim was to reveal the risk factors and predictors associated with HICP.

A Rare Case of "Human Tail" Associated with Lipomyelomeningocele and Tethered Cord.

Human tail might be the most interesting cutaneous sign of neural tube defects. From little cutaneous appendixes to 20-cm-long taillike lesions were reported in the literature. They may occur connected to an underlying pathology such as lipoma or teratoma, but most of the time, they conceal an underlying spinal dysraphism.

Non-traumatic myositis ossificans in the lumbar spine.

Background: Myositis ossificans is a non-neoplastic benign reactive bone and cartilage matrix-producing pseudotumor that develops in skeletal muscles adjacent to the joint. The clinical and pathologic appearance of myositis ossificans varies depending on the time elapsed after heterotopic bone formation. Although its etiology is unclear, it usually occurs at the site of the injured muscle, most commonly in large muscles of the extremities, especially the quadriceps and brachialis.

Solitary osteochondroma arising from cervical spina bifida occulta.

Solitary osteochondromas are common benign long bone tumors originating from cartilage. They may produce a wide variety of symptoms and complications depending on their spinal location. These may include compressive myelopathy, nerve root compression, pathologic fracture and malignant degeneration, or in some cases only pain.

Efficiency of antibiotic-loaded polymethylmethacrylate rods for treatment of the implant-related infections in rat spine.

Study Design: A study of local treatment of the implant-related infections in animal spine.

Objective: : This study aims to investigate the efficiency of antibiotic-loaded polymethylmethacrylate rods for treatment of the implant-related infections.

Summary Of Background Data: Today's implant-related vertebral infections are challenging in spinal surgery.