Chondromatosis of the Lumbar Spine: Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for This Rare Condition.

Synovial chondromatosis (SC) is a rare, benign disease. It usually occurs in large joints such as the hip and knee. Few cases have been reported in the spine, especially in the lumbar spine.

Combined Vertebral Augmentation for Vertebral Body Fracture With Contraindications for Traditional Techniques.

Introduction And Objective: A vertebral compression fracture (VCF) can be found in trauma, osteoporosis, and tumor pathology. The most frequent is the pathological fracture in osteoporotic vertebrae in the elderly. Percutaneous techniques of vertebral cementation allow treatment of A1-A2 AO spine fractures, improving pain control and spine stabilization and decreasing mobility and mortality.

[Update on the management of intracranial hypertension syndrome].

Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is a devastating complication, with great impact on neurological status and high morbidity and mortality. Intracranial hypertension (ICH) has multiple etiologies. The natural history of this condition can lead to brain death.

Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery for Parkinson Disease Coexisting With Communicating Hydrocephalus: A Case Report.

We report a successful bilateral globus pallidus internus-deep brain stimulation (GPi-DBS) for a Parkinson disease (PD) patient with idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (INPH) and an unusually long anterior commissure-posterior commissure (AC-PC) line. A 54-year-old man presented with a history of 3 months of severe shuffling gait, rigidity, slow movements of the left side limbs, and difficulty managing finances. A brain MRI revealed marked ventriculomegaly (Evans index = 0.

Percutaneous balloon compression of the gasserian ganglion for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia: personal experience of 206 patients.

In a retrospective study of 206 patients diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia (TN), we examined the results of percutaneous balloon compression (PBC) of the Gasserian ganglion performed by the same surgeon from September 1991 to November 2005. In these patients, 230 procedures were done. All patients had clinical follow-up for a minimum of 3 years while being evaluated for any recurrence of the symptoms.

Automated nucleotomy and nucleolysis with ozone.

Lumbar and radicular pain due to HNP has been described since 1934. It is thought that the pain is caused by compression and by other local chemical mediators that are present in the area of interaction between the root and the disc.With the objective of treating patients suffering from this syndrome and with a percutaneous minimally invasive approach, we designed a mixed technique: percutaneous automated nucleotomy plus nucleolysis and periradicular infiltration with ozone.

SUNCT responsive to percutaneous balloon compression of the gasserian ganglion--10-year follow-up.

We report the case of a woman with short-lasting unilateral, neuralgiform headache attacks with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT) whose severe headache attacks ceased after percutaneous balloon compression of the Gasserian ganglion. The patient remains pain free after 10-year follow-up. This may be the first literature report of SUNCT in Chile.