Spinal cord intramedullary pressure in thoracic scoliotic deformity: a cadaveric study.

Study Design: In vitro cadaveric study of thoracic spinal cord intramedullary pressure (IMP) in scoliotic deformity.

Objective: To define the relationship between thoracic scoliotic deformity and spinal cord IMP.

Summary Of Background Data: Clinical studies of patients with thoracic scoliosis without other spinal pathology (spinal stenosis, etc.

Entero-paraspinous fistula from recurrent spinal metastatic renal cell carcinoma.

The authors report a case of entero-paraspinous fistula 2 years after T-12 corpectomy and instrumentation for spinal metastasis from renal cell carcinoma. The pathogenesis in the present case seems to have arisen from local recurrence of T-12 metastatic carcinoma in spite of radiation and corpectomy. As a result of previous nephrectomy and anterolateral dissection for the T-12 corpectomy, the jejunum adhered to the surgical site.