HRCT chest in COVID-19 patients: An initial experience from a private imaging center in western India.

The COVID-19 pandemic began in late December in 2019 and has now reached to 216 countries with 1,08,42,028 confirmed cases and 5,21,277 deaths according to the WHO reports and 6,49,666 confirmed cases in india alone with 18,679 deaths (as on 04 july 2020). RT-PCR has been considered the standard test for diagnosis of COVID 19. However, there has been reported a high false negative rate.

Multilevel en bloc spondylectomy for tumors of the thoracic and lumbar spine is challenging but rewarding.

Background: Over the years, en bloc spondylectomy has proven its efficacy in controlling spinal tumors and improving survival rates. However, there are few reports of large series that critically evaluate the results of multilevel en bloc spondylectomies for spinal neoplasms.

Questions/purposes: Using data from a large spine tumor center, we answered the following questions: (1) Does multilevel total en bloc spondylectomy result in acceptable function, survival rates, and local control in spinal neoplasms? (2) Is reconstruction after this procedure feasible? (3) What complications are associated with this procedure? (4) is it possible to achieve adequate surgical margins with this procedure?

Methods: We retrospectively investigated 38 patients undergoing multilevel total en bloc spondylectomy by a single surgeon (AL) from 1994 to 2011.

Cervical epidural haematoma causing Brown-Sequard syndrome: a case report.

Brown-Sequard syndrome secondary to compression of the spinal cord by an epidural haematoma following minor trauma is rare. A 65-year-old woman presented with neck pain and sudden onset hemiplegia with contralateral anaesthesia. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a haematoma in the epidural space in the C3 to C5 levels.

Epidural and intradural cement leakage following percutaneous vertebroplasty: a case report.

A 48-year-old woman presented with severe bilateral leg pain, urinary incontinence, and paraparesis following vertebroplasty in another hospital 15 days earlier. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging showed blocks of epidural and intradural cement from T12 to L1 with neurological compression. She underwent corpectomy of L1 and removal of extradural cement, followed by anterior reconstruction with an expandable cage and dual rodscrew construct (Kaneda system).

Four- and five- level en bloc spondylectomy for malignant spinal tumors.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Objective: To report results of 4- and 5-level en bloc spondylectomy (EBS) in the treatment of malignant spinal tumors.

Summary Of Background Data: EBS is widely used to avoid local recurrence in the treatment of spinal malignant tumors.

Intraoperative skull-femoral (skeletal) traction in surgical correction of severe scoliosis (>80°) in adult neglected scoliosis.

Study Design: Retrospective review.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness, safety, and reliability of intraoperative skeletal traction in the surgical correction of severe adult neglected scoliosis.

Summary Of Background Data: Literature shows that curves more than 80° that do not reduce to 50° to 55° on bending radiographs require an anterior release.

S1 tuberculosis treated with segmental lumbopelvic fixation: a case report.

Study Design: A case report.

Objective: To describe an effective surgical option for sacral tuberculosis (TB).

Summary Of Background Data: Sacral TB is a rare cause of low back pain.

Adjuvant combined ozone therapy for extensive wound over tibia.

Disinfectant and antibacterial properties of ozone are utilized in the treatment of nonhealing or ischemic wounds. We present here a case of 59 years old woman with compartment syndrome following surgical treatment of stress fracture of proximal tibia with extensively infected wound and exposed tibia to about 4/5 of its extent. The knee joint was also infected with active pus draining from a medial wound.