Karla Flores was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. A misplaced MRI found a second, nearly inoperable, tumor on her spine.

I didn’t expect that I’d have any trouble getting or staying pregnant because I was 27 when I started trying. I was always ...

By Han Jo Kim, MD Nearly 10% of adults will experience some form of severe neck pain in any given calendar year.* But some injuries or degenerative conditions of the neck (the cervical portion of the ...

A normally aligned spine will have lordosis in the lumbar region (lower back) and cervical (neck) region, and kyphosis in the thoracic (chest) region. The amount of curvature in each part of the spine ...

Specifically, we observe that four-category cervical histology images possess a progressive inter-class association. To model the relationship, inspired by the elasticity, an adaptive elastic loss is ...

Background and objective Patients undergoing spinal surgeries may develop postoperative visual loss. We present a case of total bilateral visual loss in a patient who, despite having clinical and ...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of tranexamic acid in reducing blood loss ... in spine surgery. [9] They enrolled 64 patients of whom 18 had multilevel anterior cervical ...

Background Clinical decision rules (CDRs) are commonly used to guide imaging decisions in cervical spine injury (CSI ... Five children (0.5%) had CSIs. Loss to telephone follow-up rate was 6.8%. As ...

A second surgery two days later stabilized the junction between the bone at the base of the skull and the cervical spine. Almost a year after surgery the woman’s prognosis is “excellent,” Dr. Labib ...

After a couple of surgeries on the vertebrae in my neck, I have recovered enough to be out on my own. I had to prove to a driving instructor that I could safely drive. Since your spine tells your ...

They would remove the spinal tumor through her left eye socket. If the surgical path was not precise to within a few millimeters, Flores could lose all movement below the neck or suffer a fatal ...