Ability of Spine Specialists to Identify Psychosocial Risk Factors as Obstacles to Recovery in Patients with Low Back Pain-Related Disorders.

Study Design: Prospective study.

Purpose: Yellow flags are psychosocial associated with a greater likelihood of progression to persistent pain and disability. These are referred to as obstacles to recovery.

Recurrent thoracic intramedullary schwannoma: report of two cases with long term follow up.

Occurrence of intramedullary schwannomas is rare as Schwann cells are generally present in the nerve root and not in the spinal cord. To date, approximately around 60 cases of intramedullary schwannoma in patients without neurofibromatosis have been reported in the English literature, of which only eight were children. We describe two cases of thoracic intramedullary schwannomas that recurred after primary excision.

Application and use of subcutaneous stay sutures in anterior cervical spine surgeries with a transverse neck incision: A technical report.

Objective/purpose: The objective of this study is to describe our experience with the use of stay sutures and transverse neck incision for anterior cervical spine surgeries involving multiple levels.

Summary Of Background Data: Transverse incisions on neck usually heal with minimal fibrosis resulting in cosmetically acceptable scars whereas vertical incision, although provides greater exposure, heals with extensive fibrosis resulting in ugly scars. Transverse incision is thus highly recommended.

Traumatic multiple cervical spine injuries in a patient with osteopetrosis and its management.

Study Design: Single case report.

Objective/purpose: To report multiple level fractures of cervical spine in a patient with osteopetrosis and its management. Osteopetrosis is a rare inherited condition characterized by defective remodeling resulting in hard and brittle bones with diffuse osteosclerosis.