Cervical foraminal area and intervertebral height changes after titanium ring cage placement: preliminary results.

Objective: To investigate the effect of titanium ring cage implantation on cervical foraminal area and intervertebral height.

Methods: Twenty-two patients with single level cervical disc herniation were enrolled in this study. All patients underwent a standard anterior cervical discectomy followed by titanium ring cage implantation.

Computer-assisted intraaneurysmal thrombus visualization.

Objective: Improved visualization of intraaneurysmal thrombi can contribute to understanding their impact on clinical courses and treatments. Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) demonstrates the hemodynamic portion of aneurysm domes and vasculature structures and has been considered by many to be the principal technique used for aneurysm diagnosis. An intraaneurysmal thrombus may be visualized as a filling defect on DSA, but DSA does not reliably indicate the presence of an intraaneurysmal thrombus or its details.

Multilocated mature teratoma: a case report and review of the literature.

Mature teratomas are rare inclusion tumors, which have benign behaviors. Different locations of the tumor were reported in the literature. However, multiple tumor locations are extremely rare.