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Intramedullary spinal metastasis
Intramedullary spinal metastases are rare, occurring in ~1% of autopsied cancer patients, and are less common than leptomeningeal metastases.
Intramedullary lesions may result from:
growth along the Virchow-Robin spaces
hematogenous dissemination
direct extension from the leptomeninges
Epid...
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Laminectomy
Laminectomy is the resection of the lamina of a vertebral body. By removing the lamina the spinal canal is decompressed reducing pressure on the spinal cord / cauda equina.
Terminology
When only one of the lamina is resected the terms hemilaminectomy or unilateral hemilaminectomy can be used d...
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Ecchordosis physaliphora
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15 Apr 2016
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MRI
Pathology
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Caudal regression syndrome
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23 Feb 2012
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MRI
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Peripheral nerve sheath tumor of uncertain malignant potential
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16 Apr 2016
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Pathology
MRI
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Spinal phlegmon
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26 Feb 2012
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MRI
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Disc herniation
Disc herniation refers to the displacement of intervertebral disc material beyond the normal confines of the disc but involving less than 25% of the circumference (to distinguish it from a disc bulge). A herniation may contain nucleus pulposus, vertebral endplate cartilage, apophyseal bone/osteo...
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Coccygeal dermal sinus
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06 Jul 2022
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MRI
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Caudal regression syndrome
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20 Mar 2022
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Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
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20 Jul 2017
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CT
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Transforaminal epidural steroid injection
Transforaminal epidural steroid injections (TFESI), also known as transforaminal nerve root injections or nerve root blocks, are performed for the treatment and diagnosis of radicular pain. They differ from selective nerve root blocks (SNRB), as the aim is to get an "epidural spill" and get the ...
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Vertebral metastases (lung primary)
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06 Jun 2022
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Insufficiency fracture
Insufficiency fractures are a type of stress fracture, which are the result of normal stresses on abnormal bone. Looser zones are also a type of insufficiency fracture. They should not be confused with fatigue fractures which are due to abnormal stresses on normal bone, or with pathological frac...
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Foraminal/extraforaminal lumbar disc extrusion
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08 Aug 2017
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Spinal cord (Gray's illustration)
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07 Sep 2020
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Spinal schwannoma
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28 Jun 2018
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MRI
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Cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL)
Cerebral autosomal recessive arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CARASIL) is a systemic genetic disorder affecting the cerebral small vessels, spine and hair follicles.
CARASIL is an HTRA1-related cerebral small vessel disease, and thus is closely related to, but dis...
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Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
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25 Jul 2018
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Coccidioidomycosis
Coccidioidomycosis refers to an infection caused by the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides spp., usually localized to the lungs. This disease is not to be confused with the similarly named paracoccidioidomycosis.
Epidemiology
The most common species of Coccidioides are Coccidioides immitis and Cocc...
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Scotty dog appearance: oblique view
Published
24 Nov 2012
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