BACKGROUND: Failed back surgery syndrome represents one of the most frequent etiologies of chronic back pain and is a major public health issue. Neurostimulation has currently not been validated in the treatment of back pain because of technological limitations in implantable spinal cord stimulation SCS systems. New-generation leads using several columns of stimulation can generate [...]

Alexander Vaccaro, MD, PhD, a spine surgeon with Rothman Institute in Philadelphia and vice chairman of the department of orthopedics at Thomas Jefferson Hospital, discusses spinal injuries in athletes. Dr. Vaccaro recently worked with Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby after spinal injury was suspected. Question: What is the process of treating an athlete who sustains a [...]

Spinal Cord Compression in Patients With Advanced Metastatic Cancer Janet L. Abrahm, MD Michael B. Banffy, MD Mitchel B. Harris, MD JAMA. 2008;299(8):937-946 www.jama.com As 1 of the 12 700 US cancer patients who, each year, de- velops metastatic spinal cord compression, Ms H wishes to walk and live her life. Sadly, this wish may [...]

Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression _ Review John S Cole, Roy A Patchell Lancet Neurol 2008; 7: 459–66, may 20008 Department of Neurosurgery (JS Cole MD); and Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery (RA Patchell MD), University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, USA Metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC) occurs when cancer metastasises to the [...]

Publication year: 2012 Source: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Available online 14 January 2012 Sophia F. Shakur, Ippei Takagi, Rimas V. Lukas, Steven Chmura, Thomas F. Gajewski, … Ocular melanoma is a rare type of malignant melanoma. Melanoma metastatic to the spine typically arises within the vertebral column, presents with back pain, and has a poor prognosis. We present a patient [...]