Spinal cord compression can also occur in sarcoma, myeloma, leukemia, thyroid cancer, lymphoma, melanoma, and gastrointestinal malignancies. Favorable response to treatment directly correlates ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed ... more than 18 months generally have a worse prognosis. Non-surgical treatments for ...

A patient with refractory essential tremor of the hands and head/neck refused deep brain stimulation and requested consideration for spinal cord stimulation (SCS). Trial of a cervical SCS system using ...

Physical examination findings correspond to the location of the tumor, degree of cord impingement, and duration of involvement. [3] The APN should palpate the entire spine to determine whether ...

The pannus was in contact with the spinal cord, but there was still spinal ... while evaluating the possible neural structure compression by MRI. Preoperative conservative treatment of the cervical ...

Congenital narrowing of the cervical spinal canal may result in cord compression without a history of injury and occasionally without evidence of significant bony degenerative changes. The clinical ...

Some nonsurgical treatment options for spinal cord injury include: In many cases, spinal cord surgery is necessary to remove bone fragments, herniated discs, foreign objects, fractured vertebrae and ...

Using the PICO framework, our research question is: ‘How effective is non-surgical treatment for patients with TSS (cervical-lumbar spine type)? Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are high-quality ...

Objectives Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) involves extrinsic spinal cord compression causing tissue injury and ... but offer the intriguing possibility of presymptomatic diagnosis and ...

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal that causes compression of the spinal cord and/or nerve roots ... Most cases of spinal stenosis are treated conservatively with medication and ...

Cervical and lumbar stenosis are the most common forms, with lumbar spinal stenosis affecting more than 200,000 adults in the United States. Anatomy of the spine and the mechanics of spinal stenosis ...

The cervical spine (neck ... A traumatic spine fracture can lead to compression of one or more vertebrae and injury to the spinal cord or nerves. Interventional treatment options include kyphoplasty ...