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Successful treatment of Aspergillus spondylodiscitis with high-dose itraconazole in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia
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Spontaneous remission of a solitary intraspinal synovial cyst of the lumbar spine
We report on a 15-year-old boy in whom a spontaneous remission of a symptomatic synovial cyst, possibly emanating from the L4-5 facet joint, was noted. The medical history suggested that sport-related overact...
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Cervical myeloradiculopathy with entrapment neuropathy: a study based on the double-crush concept
In an attempt to formulate a standardised approach to the diagnosis and management of patients with the double-crush syndrome, we reviewed 65 surgical cases (39 men and 26 women) with cervical myeloradiculopat...
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Posterior limbus vertebral lesions causing lumbosacral radiculopathy and the cauda equina syndrome
This report reviews our experience with spinal decompression for posterior limbus vertebral lesions or osteocartilaginous vertebral corner defects in the lumbar spine in 29 children and young adults. There wer...
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Lumbosacral dumb-bell neurilemmoma approached by microsurgical interlaminar foraminotomy
The case history of a patient with a dumb-bell neurilemmoma arising from the L5 nerve root is described. The tumour extended into the outlet of the neural foramen at L5-S1 on the left and was al...
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Spinal cord evoked potential monitoring for cervical and thoracic compressive myelopathy
Spinal cord evoked potentials (SCEPs) were recorded epidurally in 95 surgical cases of cervical and/or thoracic compressive myelopathy. Abnormal SCEPs occurred in 91% of the patients with cervical myelopathy a...
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The cervical spine in the Klippel-Feil syndrome
We report 57 cases of the Klippel-Feil syndrome. Five had type I congenital cervical fusion, 48 type II and 4 type III. The symptoms and signs varied considerably. Patients with C2–C3 fusion often had symptoms...
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Lumbar spinal stenosis causing intermittent priapism
The current report concerns the unusual symptom of intermittent priapism, or what may be termed 'involuntary penile erection', associated with proven degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis. Seven patients who wer...
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Osteoporotic vertebral collapse with late neurological complications
This paper describes 27 patients who had a spinal fracture and underwent an anterior or a posterior spinal decompression, with or without spinal instrumentation, for late neurological compromise secondary to p...
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The role of calcium deposition in the ligamentum flavum causing a cauda equina syndrome and lumbar radiculopathy
Our report concerns five patients who underwent lumbar decompressive surgery for cauda equina syndrome and radiculopathy secondary to degenerative stenosis associated with calcium deposition in the ligamentum ...
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Flexibility and alignment of the cervical spine after laminoplasty for spondylotic myelopathy
The long term effects of laminoplasty on cervical movement and alignment were investigated by radiography and CT scans in a study of 56 patients with multisegmental myelopathy who had undergone a C3 to C7 open...
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Symptomatic arachnoiditis ossificans of the thoracic spine. Case report
This report describes a man aged 65 years who developed spastic paraparesis secondary to arachnoiditis ossificans in the thoracic spine. Over 35 years previously, in Southeast Asia, the patient had received re...
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Saturated liquid densities and bubble-point pressures of the binary HFC 152a+HCFC 142b system
Forty-eight sets of the saturated liquid densities and bubble-point pressures of the binary HFC 152a + HCFC 142b system were measured with a magnetic densimeter coupled with a variable-volume cell. The measure...
