[Objective]To discuss the mechanism,diagnosis,and treatment of tumoral calcinosis,so as to improve the rate of diagnosis and cure.[Method]The diagnosis and cure course of 10 patients and the following visit were reviewed and analysed,at the same time the pathogeny,development,diagnosis,treatment and prognosis of TC were entirely analysed,combined with ancient literature.[Result]The symptom of pain disappeared with no recurring in all the patients followed up.[Conclusion]The focus of tumoral calcinosis which resemble tumour,always locate near to the great joint.Histopathological biopsy is necessary before operation.As curing,the focus must be excised absolutely,especially when the pedicel of the focus locate near to the bone,the nearby periosteum must be scraped,so as to avoid remnant and recuring.

BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in many diseases. To analyze the miRNA expression profile in degenerative scoliosis patients is helpful for classifying its pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE: To compare miRNAs expression profile in the intervertebral disc tissue between degenerative scoliosis patients and healthy controls, and to investigate its role in the pathogenesis of degenerative scoliosis. METHODS:Degenerative nucleus pulposus tissues from 48 patients with degenerative scoliosis (male 36, female 12; 58-69 years old) and normal nucleus pulposus tissues from 36 patients with lumbar fractures were harvested to isolate, culture and identify nucleus pulposus cels folowed by total RNA extract. Differentialy expressed miRNAs were screened by microRNA microarray analysis and validated by real-Time qPCR. Target genes of highly expressed microRNAs were predicted by analyzing information from MicroCosm v5, TargetScan 5.1 and microRNA.org databases. Biological signal pathways associated with the target genes were analyzed, and qPCR was used to validate the screening results. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:Nineteen differentialy expressed miRNAs were identified. The miR-98 was highly expressed in degenerative nucleus pulposus tissue, and the fold change was 6.368. Predicted miR-98 target gene was interleukin-10, which was involved in JAK-STAT signaling pathway and located in upstream of this pathway. In degenerative nucleus pulposus cels of degenerative scoliosis patients, miR-98 was highly expressed, and the corresponding target gene was interleukin-10. These results indicate that JAK-STAT signaling pathway may play an important role in the pathogenesis of degenerative scoliosis.

BACKGROUND:Thoracolumbar degenerative kyphosis could experience severe lumbar back pain due to sagittal plane imbalance, thereby affecting quality of life. Thus, it is very important to reconstruct spino-pelvic profile in these patients. OBJECTIVE:To explore the relationships between life quality and spino-pelvic parameters fol owing pedicle subtraction osteotomy for thoracolumbar degenerative kyphosis and the clinical significance. METHODS:Between May 2010 and October 2014, 59 patients with thoracolumbar degenerative kyphosis undergoing L2 pedicle subtraction osteotomy in Cangzhou Hospital of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine were retrospectively reviewed. Anteroposterior and lateral X-ray films of al patients during standing were photographed before and after surgery. The pre-and post-operative thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis, sagittal imbalance, T1 pelvic angle, pelvic incidence, sacral slope and pelvic tilt were measured in al patients. The patients’ quality of life was evaluated using SF-36 preoperatively and postoperatively. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:(1) Significant differences were observed in the improvement of thoracic kyphosis, lumbar lordosis, pelvic tilt, sacral slope and sagittal imbalance (P<0.01). With respect to SF-36, postoperative SF-36 score was higher than preoperative postoperative SF-36 score (P<0.01). (2) The alteration of lumbar lordosis showed significant correlation with the change of pelvic tilt, sacral slope and sagittal imbalance. The change of pelvic tilt exhibited cardinal correlation with the change of sacral slope, body pain and general health. The improvement of sagittal imbalance significantly correlated with the improvement of lumbar lordosis, body pain and general health. The improvement of T1 pelvic angle significantly correlated with the improvement of lumbar lordosis, sagittal imbalance, body pain and general health. (3) Pedicle subtraction osteotomy can effectively restore spino-pelvic sagittal profile, improve the life quality and relieve pain for the patients with thoracolumbar degenerative kyphosis.