Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

What is spinal decompression surgery? Spinal decompression surgery is performed to relieve symptoms related to compression of the spinal cord or its roots, which may include back or neck pain and ...

It has an insidious course where patients can plateau in their symptoms, but overall, it is a progressive condition. Cervical myelopathy can be caused by a number of conditions that result from spinal ...

What is an acute spinal cord injury? Your spine is made of many bones called vertebrae. Your spinal cord runs downward through a canal in the center of these bones. The spinal cord is a bundle of ...

This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved the global clinical trial to treat spinal cord injury (SCI), which is ...

Primary SCI is a direct injury that shows destruction of spinal cord structure and contents caused by traction, shearing and compression from external forces. A series of complex and interrelated ...

Researchers demonstrated unprecedented rates of recovery for spinal cord injuries ... with a pivotal trial -- the final hurdle on the road to potential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval ...

Cervical myelopathy results from compression of the spinal cord in the neck (cervical area of the spine). Symptoms of cervical myelopathy may include problems with fine motor skills, pain or stiffness ...

A 28 year old woman presented a syndrome of slow spinal compression evolving over four and a half years at the level C1--C2 vertebrae due to a solitary osteochondroma of the posterior arch of the ...

Introduction Pneumonia is one of the leading complications and causes of death after a spinal cord injury (SCI). After a cervical or thoracic lesion ... At T4, the actual smoking status and ...