Cervical Gibbectomy for Rigid, Rounded Kyphosis in Pediatric Patient: Surgical Planning with Technical Note.

Objectives: Cervical kyphosis surgery poses a significant challenge to spine surgeons. Etiologies of cervical kyphosis are many, each having its own outcome and treatment challenges. Irrespective of the etiology, the treating physician should consider all options fully to improve function and prevent neurologic worsening.

Buckling Collapse of Midcervical Spine Secondary to Neurofibromatosis.

Buckling collapse is the term typically used to describe severe kyphosis >100 degrees, characteristically seen in thoracolumbar tuberculosis. Neurofibromatosis is rarely associated with severe cervical kyphosis. Dystrophic changes in vertebra make surgical correction and fusion challenging.

Surgical Management in Elderly Patients with Tuberculous Spondylodiscitis: Ten Year Mortality Audit Study.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Purpose: To evaluate the factors affecting immediate postoperative mortality in elderly patients with tuberculous spondylodiscitis.

Overview Of Literature: Treatment of spinal tuberculosis in the elderly involves consideration of age and co-morbidities, and often leads to an extended conservative management.

Recurrent Spinal Giant Cell Tumors: A Study of Risk Factors and Recurrence Patterns.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Purpose: To highlight risk factors, recurrence patterns and multimodal treatment in management of recurrent giant cell tumors (GCTs).

Overview Of Literature: GCTs of the spine are rare and challenging entities.

Post Pregnancy Severe Spinal Osteoporosis with Multiple Vertebral Fractures and Kyphoscoliosis in a Multigravida: A Rare Case with Management.

Osteoporosis associated with pregnancy and lactation is a less commonly known condition and often overlooked. The prevalence, exact aetiology and its pathogenesis are unknown. It is commonly seen in first three months after delivery in primigravida.

Extraosseous thoracic foraminal osteoblastoma: diagnostic dilemma and management with 3 year follow-up.

Osteoblastomas are bone forming lesions arising mainly from posterior elements of the vertebra. They are commonly encountered in the cervical and lumbar regions. We present a case of a thoracic osteoblastoma which is extra osseous and is not communicating with any part of the vertebra present intraforaminally.