Publications by authors named "James D Collins"

A woman with back pain.

J Natl Med Assoc

February 2010

The Editorial Board of JNMA is proud to launch yet another reader-oriented monthly column entitled "Radiology Rounds", which will be orchestrated by Dr. James Collins, longtime NMA member and professor of radiology at UCLA. Dr Collins and his colleagues across the country will endeavor to bring us a variety of interesting cases with both an educational and clinical message that will undoubtedly prove useful to our primary care physicians and many specialists as well.

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Kyphosis of the thoracic spine rotates the scapulae anterior laterally, clavicles and subclavius muscles anteriorly, displaces the manubrium posteriorly, which increases the slope of the first ribs. This increases tension on the anterior scalene muscles and the neurovascular bundles which causes brachial plexopathy (TOS). Scheuermann's disease (spinal osteochondrosis; juvenile kyphoscoliosis) is a disorder which consists of vertebral wedging endplate irregularity and narrowing of the intervertebral disk space causing kyphosis of the thoracic spine and may also involve the lumbar space.

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