1.Non-neoplastic Myelopathies Mimicking Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors:Retrospective Analysis of 8 Surgically Proven Cases.
Ki Jeong KIM ; Chun Kee CHUNG ; Ki Bum SIM ; Hyun Jib KIM
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 2000;29(7):891-898
No abstract available.
Spinal Cord Diseases*
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Spinal Cord*
2.Spontaneous Herniation of the Thoracic Spinal Cord: A Case Report.
Sung Chan JIN ; Seoung Ro LEE ; Dong Woo PARK ; Kyung Bin JOO
Journal of the Korean Radiological Society 2001;45(4):353-355
Spontaneous herniation of the spinal cord is a rare disease entity in which spinal cord substance is herniated through a previously uninjured and/or untouched dura. It is a cause of myelopathy that is treatable but difficult to diagnose. We report the CT and MR findings of a case of spontaneous thoracic spinal cord herniation manifesting as ventrolateral protrusion of thoracic spinal cord through a dural defect.
Rare Diseases
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Spinal Cord Diseases
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Spinal Cord*
3.Status of soliosis disease in pupils in Ha Noi city
Journal of Practical Medicine 2005;503(2):60-61
Investigation into 2771 pupils (1338 boys and 1433 girls) in 4 grade class groups (1, 5, 9,and 12) at districts of Hai Ba Trung, Cau Giay, Soc Son, Gia Lam of Ha Noi City from October to December 2004. Grade 1 class group included 623 pupils, grade 2 class group included 713 pupils, grade 9 class group included 695 pupils and grade 12 class group included 740 pupils. Rate of soliosis in these pupils was 18.91%. The highest rate of soliosis was in grade 9 class group (22.16%), the lowest rate in grade 1 class group (16.37%). The highest rate of soliosis was in Hai Ba Trung district, the lowest rate in Gia Lam district
Spinal Diseases
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Pupil
4.Some remarks of Hydrosyringomyelie treatmean
Journal of Practical Medicine 2005;0(12):13-15
On occasion of a hydrosyringomyelie accompanied with communicating hydrocephalus which was managed successfully and literature referred, the authors had some remarks about management of this disease. Some remarks of such as: the disease often appears in one region, most in cervical and upper thoracic of the spinal canal. It is the rare disease caused by many sources. It may be congenital approximately 50-70% of CHIARI I (Menezes) and 40-95% of CHIAR II (Naidich). It may be also secondary to spinal trauma, myelitis (virus, bacteria, tuber culosis bacillus...vv.) Signals and symptoms are poorly. The diagnosis is difficulty but no longer now because of applying MRI. Since this disease is accompanied with others malformations, the management have some differences, depending on the caused of the disease
Spinal Diseases
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Diagnosis
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Therapeutics
5.Surfer's Myelopathy Mimicking Infectious Myelitis.
Jongsuk CHOI ; Hung Youl SEOK ; Yoohwan KIM ; Byung Jo KIM
Journal of Clinical Neurology 2017;13(2):207-208
No abstract available.
Myelitis*
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Spinal Cord Diseases*
6.Spontaneous Hematomyelia: Case Report.
Jeong Hyun HWANG ; Joo Kyung SUNG ; Sung Kyoo HWANG ; In Suk HAMM ; Yeun Mook PARK ; Seung Lae KIM
Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society 2000;29(3):411-419
No abstract available.
Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases*
7.Revision of Atlantoaxial Fusion using Segmental Screw Fixation: Experience in Bilateral Posterior Arch Fracture of the Atlas Complicating Atlantoaxial Halifax Clamp Fixation: A Case Report.
Jae Sung SUH ; Kyeong Hwan KIM ; Soon Woo HONG ; Jin Sup YEOM ; Kun Woo PARK ; Bong Soon CHANG ; Choon Ki LEE
Journal of Korean Society of Spine Surgery 2007;14(3):187-191
A fracture of the posterior arch of the atlas is a rare complication of Halifax clamp fixation for atlantoaxial fusion. To the best of our knowledge, there is only one case reported reporting the English literature. Revision for this condition is challenging because of the difficulty in the surgical approach, internal fixation, and fusion. We report a case of bilateral fractures and nonunion of the posterior arch of the atlas and atlantoaxial nonunion after an atlantoaxial fusion procedure using Halifax clamp fixation, which resulted in persistent atlantoaxial instability and progressive myelopathy. Segmental screw fixation was performed using C1 lateral mass screws and C2 subarticular screws, along with intraarticular and extraarticular atlantoaxial inter-facet fusion.
Spinal Cord Diseases
8.Three Cases of Transverse Myelopathy.
Hae Joung JOUNG ; Hwang Min KIM ; Jae Seung YANG ; Baek Keun LIM ; Jong Soo KIM
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1990;33(10):1418-1422
No abstract available.
Spinal Cord Diseases*
9.Identifying the injury in demyelinating cervical spinal cord disease: A diffusion tensor imaging and tractography study
Jiafeng Chen ; Chunkui Zhou ; Lijun Zhu ; Xin Chen ; Shaokuan Fang ; Jiafeng Chen ; Chunkui Zhou
Neurology Asia 2016;21(1):73-80
Background & Objectives: Multiple sclerosis (MS), neuromyelitis optica (NMO) and acute transverse
myelitis (ATM) are common diseases in neurology; however their corresponding cervical spinal
cord involvements are still ambiguous. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the utility of
diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and diffusion tensor tractography (DTT) in identifying the injury in
cervical spinal cord. Methods: Nine patients and nine healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study.
Conventional sequences and DTI scan were performed on each participant. Results: The average
fractional anisotrophy (FA) values of the cervical cord in patients with acute cerebral type MS, acute or
stationary cerebrospinal type MS, acute NMO, or acute ATM were all significantly decreased relative
to the control group (p <0.05). As to the cerebrospinal type MS, the changes in acute-stage patients
were more apparent (p <0.05). The average FA value of the cervical cord in acute NMO was decreased
more extensively, involving the normal-appearing spinal cord (p <0.05). In patients with MS or NMO,
The lesions showed significantly hypointense on FA images and directionally encoded color (DEC)
images, nevertheless the pathological areas on DTI images were no significantly different from those
on routine sequences. On DTT, the fiber tracts in the lesion-involved regions were all sparser than
that in control regions, nevertheless interruption or impairment of fiber tracts could only be noted in
NMO patients. Bilateral differences of average FA values in the cervical cord was noted in one case
with ATM and another case with MS (p <0.05), and the decrease of FA values was significant in the
main side of clinical presentations.
Conclusion: DTI and DTT may be a sensitive measure for early cervical injury in MS, NMO and ATM
Spinal Cord Diseases
10.Does the Quality of Life in Operated Patients with Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis correspond with the Radiographic Parameters?
Hisam MA ; Siti NS ; Jou NP ; Ghaneshinee S ; Shaharuddin AR ; Azmi B ; Mohd KFMM
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal 2015;9(2):37-40
Objectives: Traditionally, scoliosis surgery is aimed at
attaining a fused, balanced and painless spine. With
improvement in surgical and instrumentation techniques,
spine surgeons strive to achieve higher degree of Cobb’s
angle and rib hump correction with the idea of greater
patient satisfaction. The aim of this study was to determine
the patients’ satisfaction using SRS-22 questionnaire and
their correlations with the radiographic changes.
Materials and methods: A prospective study was conducted
in a tertiary referral centre using the Scoliosis Research
Society-22 (SRS-22) questionnaire during the patients’
annual follow up, between February to April 2014. Thirtyseven
patients who met the inclusion criteria were enrolled.
Results: The mean pre-operative Cobb’s angles were 57.8o ±
12.7o and mean post-operative angle of 20.0o ± 10.4o,
resulting in average correction of 65.9 ± 14.4%. Mean preoperative
rib hump was 61.1 ± 15.4 mm with mean postoperative
rib hump of 15.8 ± 17.8 mm, resulting in average
reduction of 77.7 ± 23.7%. Mean of post-operative total SRS
score was 4.1 ± 0.5. Using Spearman rank correlation, the
percentage of Cobb’s angle correction versus the SRS-22
score showed correlation of 0.17 (P=0.33) while the
percentage of rib hump reduction versus SRS-22 score
showed a correlation of 0.11 (P=0.53).
Conclusion: In this study, the average total SRS-22 score
was 4.1 ± 0.5 (range, 3.1-4.9) post-operatively indicating
very high satisfaction rate overall. Despite attempts at
greater curve correction and rib hump reduction, there is no
direct correlation between patient satisfaction and
radiographic parameters.
Scoliosis
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Spinal Diseases