In combat zones and emergency rescues, rapid evacuation and treatment can mean the difference between life and death. But ...

The spinal cord was not swollen, and no contrast enhancement was detected. An axial image (Fig. 2) at the same levels showed increased T2 signal in the anterior horn bilaterally, so-called snake-eye ...

Outpatient spine surgery remains an area of growth with the share of spine surgeries in the ASC growing 8% between 2021 and 2024. And for Hardy Sikand, CEO of Indiana Spine Group, some procedures are ...

Spinal cord infarctions are rare, and the symptoms vary depending on location and size. One patient presented with severe neck pain and paresis of the left arm. Compression of a cervical nerve root ...

A 30-year-old woman presented with progressive paraparesis and urinary incontinence for 1 month. Physical examination revealed weakness at the plantar and dorsal flexors of the ankle and toes. Routine ...

The anterior spinal artery is a branch of the vertebral arteries that anastomoses with the branches of the descending thoracic aorta. These are the common pathways for rerouting the blood in cases of ...

SCI typically occurs between 50 and 70 years old on average [2]. It mainly presents as either anterior spinal artery syndrome or anterior spinal cord syndrome (ASCS) in up to 87.2% of cases [3 - 5].

THE syndrome of acute anterior-spinal-artery thrombosis has been well described.1 , 2 Although earlier reports1 considered pain a major symptom of this syndrome, more recent publications2 have not ...

Spinal angiography and preoperative tumour embolisation were planned using the CorPath GRX Robotic System (Corindus, a Siemens Healthineers Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA). 1 Segmental artery ...