Daniel Choi, MD, completed his 50th surgery using the prodisc C-Vivo cervical disc replacement with more than 100 implanted discs total, his practice said July 1. The milestone case was completed at ...

Women aged 65 and above are still at heightened risk of cervical cancer caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), suggest the findings of a large observational study published in the open access journal ...

Imaging of the Cervical Spine and Its Role in Clinical Decision Making R. Bryan Murphy, BS, S. Craig Humphreys, MD, Desmond L. Fisher, MD, Scott D. Hodges, DO, Jason C. Eck, MS Disclosures ...

Disc replacement surgery is an alternative treatment to spinal fusion surgery for a variety of spinal problems. It has been available for conditions of the cervical and lumbar spine since the 1960s in ...

The pain aggravated with tilting the head to an opposite direction. Plain X-ray of the cervical spine was unremarkable and an MRI of the cervical spine revealed a normal sagittal profile but axial ...

He underwent computed tomography (CT) guided biopsy of his cervical spine. The biopsy was negative for tuberculosis and other infective organisms. Blood cultures, sickle cell history, human ...

X-ray examination disclosed a destructive lesion of the 4th, 5th and 6th cervical bodies by a mixed osteoblastic and osteolytic lesion (Fig. 1 and 2). The other cervical vertebras were normal.

Doctors diagnosed him with severe cervical disc herniation from C3 to C7, a hunched cervical spine, and compression causing spinal cord damage at C5 and C6. Additionally, his lumbar spine showed ...

More information: Dario Pfyffer et al, Prognostic value of tissue bridges in cervical spinal cord injury: a longitudinal, multicentre, retrospective cohort study, The Lancet Neurology (2024).

Here are the best new spine surgery technologies for 2023. Every year, Orthopedics This Week convenes a panel of top surgeons to review dozens of new technology submissions from around the world. This ...

The mild outward curve of your upper spine, called kyphosis, is normal. However, for some people, that spinal curvature increases noticeably with age, creating a stooped-over, head-forward posture.

Cervical stenosis (CS) is the medical term for the narrowing of the spinal canal in the cervical or “neck” region of the spine. In CS, the upper part of the spinal canal becomes narrowed ...