Enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the imaging ... the extent of epidural and paraspinal involvement, the predominant location of the abscess, and, frequently, determines the surgical ...

Blood cultures or cultures from epidural ... persists. Spinal instability, deteriorating neurological status, lack of availability of emergency spinal surgery or MRI facilities, an abscess that ...

1 Second Department of Spinal Surgery, The Second People’s Hospital ... Figure 2. Sagittal T1-weighted MRI showing that the epidural abscess has been cleared and decompressed adequately (white ...

This case underscores the need for careful evaluation of MRI findings ... located within the spinal cord, which can include infections like abscesses. Abscess: A localized collection of pus ...

Figure 1. Postoperative thoracic MRI revealed subdural hematoma in front of the spinal cord at the T4-8 vertebral plane and epidural hematoma behind the spinal cord at the T12-L2 vertebral plane (Red ...

This MRI in flexion with enlarging of the epidural space is a classical sign for Hirayama disease, a rare cervical myelopathy, caused by spinal cord compression during flexing the neck. Owing to ...

MRI of dorsal spine was suggestive of myelitis at T7 ... (Guillain-Barré syndrome), para/post-infectious myelitis, traumatic spinal injury, epidural haematoma/abscess, post-diptheric polyneuropathy, ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) has developed a new systematic review to summarize for neurologists and other ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...