Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) is becoming a more common clinically encountered entity as advancing systemic antineoplastic treatment modalities improve survival in cancer ...

Introduction: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating neurological disorder with an enormous impact on individual's life and society. A reliable and reproducible animal model of SCI is crucial to ...

1 Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Tengandogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 2 Department of Neurosurgery, CHU Yalgado Ouédraogo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. 3 Department of Neurosurgery, Hopital National ...

Background: Surgical intervention is necessary for resolving the symptoms of the spinal cord and nerve compression caused by symptomatic metastatic epidural spinal cord compression. However, surgeons ...

Any condition that puts pressure within the spinal canal causes spinal cord compression. As your spinal cord is protected by a stack of backbones called 'vertebrae', and they also hold your body ...

Lean Lobectomy: Streamlining Video-Assisted Lobectomy to Increase the Value of Lung Cancer Care The medical records of all 40 patients who received palliative radiotherapy for malignant ESCC from 2015 ...

In addition, patients with VCF have a 23% risk of mortality compared to age matched controls without VCF. This is primarily related to compromised pulmonary function as a result of thoracic as well as ...

Globus Medical. has been granted a patent for a spinal compression system that enables effective compression of bone structures while maintaining visual access to the surgical site. The system ...