Items tagged “spine”

Foix-Alajouanine syndrome refers to subacute, progressive myelopathy due to venous hypertension from a spinal dural arteriovenous fistula. Clinical presentation Patients have paraparesis (leg weakness), sensory loss in the legs, and loss of bowel and bladder sphincter control 1. Pathology Sp...

Calcific tendinitis of the longus colli muscles is an inflammatory/granulomatous response to the deposition of calcium hydroxyapatite crystals in the tendons of the longus colli muscle. It is sometimes more generically known as calcific prevertebral tendinitis or, less accurately, as retropharyn...