Báo cáo y học: "Endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty success rates for treatment of foraminal spinal stenosis: report on sixty-four cases"

... laminoforaminoplasty success rates for treatment of foraminal spinal stenosis: report on sixty-four cases Scott M.W. Haufe 1,3 , Anthony R. Mork 2,3 , Morgan A. Pyne 3, and Ryan A. Baker 3 1. Chief of Pain Medicine ... de-compression in patients with spinal foraminal stenosis; additional controlled trials are war-ranted. Key words: endoscopic laminoforaminoplas...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:17

... outcome. Key words: foramen magnum; arachnoid cyst; syringomyelia. Introduction The commonest type of arachnoid cyst that causes compression of the spinal cord and develop-ment of syringomyelia ... cyst can induce compression of the spinal cord and development of syringomyelia [11,12]. Common features of these lesions are secondary cer-ebellar tonsillar herniation with syringo...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... caused by compression exerted by the hands on the skin which are slid along the route of the lymphatic vessels, promotes the formation of lymph. Thus, using the principles of hydrodynamics, physi-ology, ... adaptation and the development of new forms of treatment are necessary. This team is composed of the lymphologist or professional trained in the treatment of lymphedema...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... arthroplasty. Interest-ingly, all of them have used only polyvinylalcohol sponges for infection management. Kelm et al. re-ported an infection eradication in 9 out of 10 patients having early infections ... Periprosthetical insertion of polyvinylalcohol sponges. Figure 5: Anatomical reconstruction and adaptation of the tissue layers for retention of the V.A.C. – therapy. Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... from surgery, as op-posed to acute infections occurring within 4 weeks of the operation [1]. Treatment of Chronic Hip Infections after THA Treatment options for chronic hip joint infections after ... arthroplasty using ALC but without long-term systemic antibiotic therapy has also been reported by Stockley et al [19] in a recent study of 114 patients treated for chronic THA infe...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:53

... Conclusions: Endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty offers an alternative to fusion or conven-tional laminotomy with similar success rates. Patients additionally benefit from a decrease risk of complications, ... re-sults consistent with published data. Endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty offers an al-ternative to fusion or conventional laminotomy with similar success rates. Patients additio...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57

... measures, nerve ablation may provide significant re-lief. Rhizotomy is commonly performed by radiofre-quency ablation (RFA); cryo-denervation has been reported in Europe 2 17 1. Ablation of the dorsal ... 40-45% of patients had evidence of facet joint pain based on anesthetic nerve blocks 9 10. Conservative therapy for facet joint pain consists of rest, physical therapy, and short...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:32

... protocolised care, early rehabilitation, preven-tion of early complications, early supported dischargeand secondary prevention. Positive health effects havenot only been reported for stroke services ... in the longrun. Consequently, additional evidence on the relativecost-effectiveness of stroke services is needed for longertime horizons.To our knowledge no long-term follow-up study...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... dose of 60 Gy (2 Gy/fraction, five fractions a week for a total of six weeks treatment) . For the quality assurance proto-col we used a two-dimensional ionization-chamber array (2D-ARRAY). ... study has shown that our treat-ment planning for intensity modulated radiation therapy is accurately done. Key words: Photon-beam dose calculation; quality assurance, intensity modulated radi...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51

... IInntteerrnnaattiioonnaall JJoouurrnnaall ooff MMeeddiiccaall SScciieenncceess 2011; 8(6):467-469 Case Report Spontaneous Hemoperitoneum Caused By a Diverticulum of the Sigmoid Colon Bong Hyeon Kye1, Hyung ... Hee Yoon2, Dong Choon Park2, and Sung Jong Lee2  1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea 2. Department of Obstetrics a...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:51