Pericardial rupture is uncommon, occurring in less than 0.5% of cases of blunt trauma. 1 In cases of right-sided pericardial rupture, the heart can herniate into the right thorax with associated ...

A disc herniation, also known as a "slipped disc," can see a disc pushed out the side, below or up around the spinal cord. "Herniation of the disc often occurs very explosively, causing ...

The therapeutic options for 83 patients of traumatic instability of the subaxial cervical spine, whose average age was 35 years, were determined, according to the Allen-Ferguson classifica-tion, ...

This interpretation is consistent with the left-sided hemiparesis that the patient developed after herniation, known as the “Kernohan's notch” phenomenon (17). Figure 1. Duret hemorrhages due to ...

Case report. To describe a case of pediatric calcified intervertebral disc herniations at the cervical–thoracic junction surgically treated with laminoplasty. A 13-year-old girl with calcified ...