A prospective multicenter randomized study comparing the SpineJack system and nonsurgical management with a brace in acute traumatic vertebral fractures: the SPICO study.

Objective: The objective of this study was to evaluate the efffectiveness of a titanium vertebral augmentation device (SpineJack system) in terms of back pain, radiological outcomes, and economic burden compared with nonsurgical management (NSM) (bracing) for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures. Complications were also evaluated for both treatment methods.

Methods: A prospective multicenter randomized study was performed at 9 French sites.

[Percutaneous kyphoplasty using expandable SpineJack® implant for the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures].

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to assess the outcome of surgical management of osteoporotic vertebral fractures with percutaneous kyphoplasty using expandible SpineJack® implant.

Methods: We conducted an analytical retrospective single-center study over a period of 33-months (April 2015 - December 2017). It involved patients treated with kyphoplasty for an osteoporotic vertebral fracture.

A prospective, international, randomized, noninferiority study comparing an implantable titanium vertebral augmentation device versus balloon kyphoplasty in the reduction of vertebral compression fractures (SAKOS study).

Background Context: Balloon kyphoplasty (BKP) is a commonly performed vertebral augmentation procedure for painful osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs).

Objective: This study aimed to support a non-inferiority finding for the use of a titanium implantable vertebral augmentation device (TIVAD) compared to BKP.

Study Design: Prospective, parallel group, controlled comparative randomized study.

Risk factors for surgical site infections after neurosurgery: A focus on the postoperative period.

Background: Surgical site infection (SSI) after neurosurgery has potentially devastating consequences.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted over a period of 24 months in a university center. All adult patients undergoing neurosurgical procedures, with exception of open skull fractures, were included.

Pneumocephalus after thoracotomy.

Background: Pneumocephalus is a well-known phenomenon in which a fistula between the thoracic cavity and the subarachnoid space is one of its rare etiologies.

Methods: We report a new case of pneumocephalus after thoracotomy and review eight similar cases in the literature.

Results: In all cases, an operation was carried out for an intrathoracic neoplasm located at the apex with chest wall invasion.

[Neurological form of cryptococcosis. Apropos of 2 atypical cases in non HIV-infected patients].

Cryptococcal infection is the most common fungal infection of the central nervous system. More than 50% of the cases of cryptococcal infection are superimposed on an immunosuppressive or other general debilitating condition. Cerebral cryptococcosis usually presents as meningitis or meningoencephalitis, although cerebral granuloma has also been reported.

[Painful ophthalmoplegia of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome. 4 Nigerian cases].

The Tolosa-Hunt syndrome is a painful ophthalmoplegia in relation with a granulomatous lesion of the cavernous sinus of obscure etiology. The authors report 4 cases diagnosed at National Hospital of Niamey (Republic of Niger). They were 3 men and one woman.

[Sheehan's syndrome in sudano-sahelian Africa. 40 observations].

Postpartum hypopituitarism or Sheehan's syndrome is frequent in Sahelian Africa. From February 1983 to July 1988, the authors observed 40 cases at National hospital of Niamey (Republic of Niger). These patients were Black African women living in rural areas, without medical assistance during the last delivery.

[Sheehan syndrome in the Republic of Niger. 19 cases].

From February 1983 to December 1985, the authors investigated 19 african women with Sheehan's syndrome in Niamey (Republic of Niger). A 15 points diagnostic score was systematically used. Two signs were indispensable for the diagnosis: post-partum agalactia (or severe hypogalactia) and amenorrhea.