Objective: This case report describes the surgical management of a recumbent silkworm-like paravertebral schwannoma in the lumbar spine resected via the lateral retroperitoneal approach. Methods: A ...

Your spine runs from the base of the skull down to your tailbone. Its sections are called the cervical spine, the thoracic spine, and the lumbar spine. Neural foraminal stenosis can occur at any ...

3 Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Background Most patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS ... with 2 s insufflation followed by manually assisted thoracic ...

Here, we performed loss- and gain-of-function experiments in Xenopus laevis to reveal the novel roles of these proteins in spinal cord development and regeneration. We show that Marcks and Marcksl1 ...

Cervical radiculopathy is pain and neuropathy in the neck that results from a pinching or inflammation of a cervical nerve at the point where it exits the spine, called the foramen or neuroforamen.

Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is an established treatment for refractory pain syndromes and has recently been applied to improve locomotion. Several technical challenges are faced by surgeons during ...