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Atlanto-occipital dislocation: case report and discussion David A. McKenna, MB, MRCOG, MRCPI, FFRRCSI;* Clare J. Roche, MB.BCh, BAO, MRCPI, DMRD, FRCR;* W. Kit Lee, MB.BS, FRANZCR;† William C. Torreggiani, MB.BCh, BAO, LRCP&SI, MRCPI, FRCR, FFRRCSI;† Vinay A. Duddalwar, MB.BS, MD, FRCR, DNB, MRad† *Department of Radiology, University College Hospital Galway, Newcastle, Galway...

Case Presentation and literature review of the importance of screening for this injury

In this SpineUniverse patient case presented by Dr. Michael Kaiser, neruosurgeon, Columbia University in New York, NY the patient underwent an anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C5-C6 and C6-C7 with PEEK/BMP interbody grafting and anterior plate stabilization. Dr. Gerard Girasole, orthopedic surgeon offers a case review.  Each...

GICD-Europe Case III Carlos Villanueva Spain

From Applied Radiology Cryptococcal Osteomyelitis Posted 09/04/2003 Timothy C. Sloan, DVM, MD, Jason Hosey, MD Summary A 51-year-old man presented to the emergency department with chest pain radiating to the right shoulder. The pain had been present for several months but had become refractory to analgesics. Past medical history was...

A patient with thirty years history of ankylosing spondylitis sustained a head and neck injury after a fall.He was transmitted to the emergency department .His GCS was 15 with no findings in neurological examination.He had x-rays of the head and neck which considered normal and the patient discharged from the...

From Neurosurgical Focus Iatrogenic Spondylodiscitis: Case Report and Review of the Literature Posted 07/15/2004 Erol Taþdemiroðlu, M.D.; Ahmet Sengöz, M.D.; Erdem Bagatur, M.D. Abstract and Introduction Abstract Iatrogenic intervertebral disc space infection is encountered following microsurgical discectomy, percutaneous laser disc decompression, automated percutaneous lumbar nucleotomy operations, and discography. The purpose of...

Archive copy 2003

Physicians with HealthEast Care System will perform an innovative spine procedure live on the Internet. The procedure at St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota will take place on April 19 at 4:00 pm Central Time.

This live webcast will involve physicians from HealthEast Spine Care and HealthEast Osteoporosis Care....

See the least invasive solution for truly percutaneous 360-degree lumbar fusion at L5-S1. The AxiaLIF®360™ procedure will be presented in a live webcast from Texas Back Institute & Plano Presbyterian Center for Diagnostics and Surgery at 12 Noon CDT (17:00 UTC)

AxiaLIF 360º combines the stability of the TranS1® 3D Axial...

Orthochina.org Case Presentation March 2006 Lumbar Kyphosis and Spondylolisthesis

Septic Sacroiliitis: The Overlooked Diagnosis from Journal of the Southern Orthopedic Association David E. Attarian, MD, Durham, NC Abstract Infection of the sacroiliac joint is extraordinarily rare. However, the initial symptoms and signs associated with this condition are mundane, thus leading to delay in diagnosis, or even misdiagnosis. I report an extremely unusual pyogenic...

Case Report Neurosurg Focus 17(6), 2004 Posted 01/18/2005 John W. German, M.D.; Susan M. Kellie, M.D.; Manjunath P. Pai, Pharm.Dc.; Paul T. Turner, M.D.
Scedosporium apiospermum is a rare cause of fungal vertebral osteomyelitis that may result in chronic infection requiring multiple surgical interventions and long-term medical therapy. This case is...

AO North America Spine Case Presentations collection

Networked Medical Information Services was an early orthopaedic Internet organization which provided a case discussion site. Abandoned 2003