Department of Neurosurgery, NYU Langone Medical Center, Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Published: May 2010
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Metameric lesions of the spine are rare. The authors present a case of patient with a complex metameric vascular lesion of the thoracic spine and describe a management strategy for this entity.
* A case study presented a 37-year-old woman who developed pelvic limb paralysis 48 hours after a cesarean delivery, linked to a significant epidural mass extending from C7 to L3, identified as a spinal cavernous hemangioma.
* The research emphasizes the need for early diagnosis of segmental neurovascular syndrome in patients with skin lesions and neurological symptoms, as timely intervention can result in successful surgical treatment and improved patient outcomes.
Introduction This case series aims to compare changes in spinal column mobility using the Spinal Mouse® (Idiag, Volketswil, Switzerland), a device providing a spatial survey of a single vertebra's position. The measurements have been made before and after an osteopathic treatment with different spinal column positions on healthy subjects. We presumed that osteopathic treatment is able to improve spinal column mobility.
Vertebral hemangiomas (VHs) are benign vascular tumors that develop from the endoderm of blood vessels, although their exact pathogenesis is poorly understood. Most hemangiomas are small, about a third are multiple in number, and a very small number of these hemangiomas cause symptoms. Even more rare are aggressive VHs, which comprise a small number of all VHs, and are associated with expansion and extraosseous extension into the paraspinal and epidural spaces.
Organisms comprise multiple interacting parts, but few quantitative studies have analysed multi-element systems, limiting understanding of phenotypic evolution. We investigate how disparity of vertebral morphology varies along the axial column of mammalian carnivores - a chain of 27 subunits - and the extent to which morphological variation have been structured by evolutionary constraints and locomotory adaptation. We find that lumbars and posterior thoracics exhibit high individual disparity but low serial differentiation.
Objective: Few classifications of intradural spinal arteriovenous shunts (ID-SAVSs) have considered their anatomical localization in relation to their phenotype and angioarchitectonics. The authors propose another vision of ID-SAVSs allowing a reappraised classification based on analysis of the anatomical disposition, angioarchitecture, and histogenetic location of these vascular malformations.
Methods: The radiological and clinical records of 210 patients with ID-SAVSs were retrospectively reviewed, considering their localization, vascular architectonics, and correlation with the 5 histogenetic units of the spinal cord.
