Five-year results of lumbar disc prostheses in the SWISSspine registry.

Purpose: The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health demanded a nationwide HTA registry for lumbar total disc arthroplasty (TDA), to decide about its reimbursement. The goal of the SWISS spine registry is to generate evidence about the safety and efficiency of lumbar TDA.

Methods: Two hundred forty-eight cases treated between 3-2005 and 6-2006, who were eligible for the 5-year follow-up were included in the study.

Remote cerebellar haemorrhage after lumbar spine surgery: case report.

Remote cerebellar haemorrhage (RCH) is a well-described complication of supratentorial surgical procedures with an incidence ranging between 0.2 and 4.9 %, but is a rare complication of spinal surgery.

Lumbar total disc replacement: correlation of clinical outcome and radiological parameters.

Background: The objective of this study was to correlate various radiological parameters with clinical outcome in patients who had undergone lumbar total disc replacement (TDR). Lumbar TDR is one possible treatment option in patients with low back pain (LBP), offering an alternative to lumbar fusion. Favourable clinical outcome hinges on a number of radiological parameters, such as mobility, sintering, and-most importantly-accurate positioning of the implant.

Five-year results of cervical disc prostheses in the SWISSspine registry.

Background: The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health demanded a nationwide HTA-registry for cervical total disc arthroplasty (TDA), to decide about its reimbursement. The goal of the SWISSspine registry is to generate evidence about the safety and efficiency of cervical TDA.

Materials And Methods: Three hundred thirty-two cases treated between 3.

[Results of various reconstructive procedures in defects of the fronto-facial area].

Small calvarial defects may be recontoured by Gore-Tex membranes or by micro burr hole covering plates in combination with bone dust. In extended defects the best primary and secondary results are obtained with splitted calvarium grafts due to their stabilizing and esthetic features. Micromeshes prevent contour disturbances in the contact zone of the transplants.

Transcapillary and interstitial diffusion of Na-fluorescein in chronic venous insufficiency with white atrophy.

White atrophy (atrophie blanche) in the medial ankle region due to chronic venous insufficiency (stasis syndrome) was studied in 12 patients by fluorescence video microscopy [1,8]. After intravenous bolus injection of 1 ml of 20% Na-fluorescein the dynamic phenomena of transcapillary and interstitial diffusion of the dye were analyzed by a videodensitometer which has moved on single frames of the TV-recordings across white atrophy at different times after dye appearance. White atrophy is characterized by 3 main areas: 1) the avascular field sensu strictu, 2) the border region with enlarged and tortuous capillary loops, and 3) the more remote capillaries showing less altered morphology.

Fluorescence microlymphography.

Microneedles, 0.2 mm o.d.