Long-term survival following resection of extracompartmental osteosarcoma of the spine - A case report and literature review.

Background: Osteosarcoma, representing 3% of sarcomas, rarely involves the axial skeleton. The overall 5-year survival is just 18%. Here, we present a 15-year-old female with an extracompartmental osteosarcoma, who following radical spine surgery, chemotherapy, and intensive radiotherapy remained disease-free 15.

Epidural extension of dorsal vertebral D1-D7 hemangiomas with congenital cutaneous hemangiomas: Case report and literature review.

Background: There are only rare reports of simultaneous multiple thoracic vertebral, epidural, and congenital cutaneous hemangiomas occurring at the same levels.

Case Description: A 24-year-old male presented with a progressive paraparesis attributed to multiple vertebral hemangiomas (MVH) with epidural extension (i.e.

Post Dengue Fever Epidural Abscess With or Without Spondylodiscitis: A Case Series of Eight Patients in a Single Season in a Single Center: Does the Dengue Have a Predilection for the Neural Tissue?

Study Design: A retrospective case series.

Objective: The aim of this study was to report the immunosuppression and secondary bacterial infection after dengue viral infection and the predilection of these infections in the spine. This can trigger further research in to this fact.

Thecamoebians (Testate Amoebae) Straddling the Permian-Triassic Boundary in the Guryul Ravine Section, India: Evolutionary and Palaeoecological Implications.

Exceptionally well-preserved organic remains of thecamoebians (testate amoebae) were preserved in marine sediments that straddle the greatest extinction event in the Phanerozoic: the Permian-Triassic Boundary. Outcrops from the Late Permian Zewan Formation and the Early Triassic Khunamuh Formation are represented by a complete sedimentary sequence at the Guryul Ravine Section in Kashmir, India, which is an archetypal Permian-Triassic boundary sequence. Previous biostratigraphic analysis provides chronological control for the section, and a perspective of faunal turnover in the brachiopods, ammonoids, bivalves, conodonts, gastropods and foraminifera.

Intra-radicuar Disc Herniation mimicking a Nerve Root Tumor.

Introduction: Intra-radicular disc herniations are rare disorders with only few cases reported in literature. In most of these cases there is evidence of some part of the disc in adjacent area. We present a case of completely intra-radicular disc which was misdiagnosed as nerve root tumor as there was no evidence of disc prolapse at the time of diagnosis.