Spinal Cord Diseases

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A new millenium for spinal cord regeneration: growth-associated genes. 
  • ACR Appropriateness Criteria Myelopathy. 
  • Acute neurotoxicity after intrathecal cytosine arabinoside in two adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia of B-cell type. 
  • Adipose tissue in the filum terminale: a computed tomographic finding that may indicate tethering of the spinal cord. 
  • Anterior versus posterior surgical approaches to treat cervical spondylotic myelopathy: outcomes of the prospective multicenter AOSpine North America CSM study in 264 patients. 
  • Association of myelopathy scores with cervical sagittal balance and normalized spinal cord volume: analysis of 56 preoperative cases from the AOSpine North America Myelopathy study. 
  • Brain and spine imaging findings in AIDS patients. 
  • Cervical Myelopathy Doubles the Rate of Dislocation and Fracture After Total Hip Arthroplasty. 
  • Cervical radiographical alignment: comprehensive assessment techniques and potential importance in cervical myelopathy. 
  • Cervical spondylotic myelopathy: complications and outcomes after spinal fusion. 
  • Chronic spinal cord electrical stimulation protects against 6-hydroxydopamine lesions. 
  • Clarification letter: observer agreement of spine stenosis on magnetic resonance imaging analysis of patients with cervical spine myelopathy. 
  • Clinical tests for screening and diagnosis of cervical spine myelopathy: a systematic review. 
  • Comparison of Outcomes Following Anterior vs Posterior Fusion Surgery for Patients With Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: An Analysis From Quality Outcomes Database. 
  • Despite worse baseline status depressed patients achieved outcomes similar to those in nondepressed patients after surgery for cervical deformity. 
  • Detection of clinical and subclinical retinal abnormalities in neurosarcoidosis with optical coherence tomography. 
  • Development and Validation of Cervical Prediction Models for Patient-Reported Outcomes at 1 Year After Cervical Spine Surgery for Radiculopathy and Myelopathy. 
  • Diabetes and perioperative outcomes following cervical fusion in patients with myelopathy. 
  • Diffusion tensor imaging detects abnormalities in the corticospinal tracts of neonates with infantile Krabbe disease. 
  • Disaster preparedness and response practices among providers from the Veterans Health Administration and Veterans with spinal cord injuries and/or disorders. 
  • Dorsal surgery for myelopathy and myeloradiculopathy. 
  • Dorsal thoracic spinal cord herniation: report of an unusual case and review of the literature. 
  • Ectopic myelinating oligodendrocytes in the dorsal spinal cord as a consequence of altered semaphorin 6D signaling inhibit synapse formation. 
  • Effect of Modified Japanese Orthopedic Association Severity Classifications on Satisfaction With Outcomes 12 Months After Elective Surgery for Cervical Spine Myelopathy. 
  • Efficacy and safety of surgical decompression in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy: results of the AOSpine North America prospective multi-center study. 
  • Endovascular treatment of a spinal dural arteriovenous malformation (DAVF). 
  • Epidural spinal involvement of Erdheim-Chester disease causing myelopathy. 
  • Evaluating diagnosis-based risk-adjustment methods in a population with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • Familial spinocerebellar degeneration with corneal dystrophy. 
  • Fractional anisotropy to quantify cervical spondylotic myelopathy severity. 
  • Frequency, timing, and predictors of neurological dysfunction in the nonmyelopathic patient with cervical spinal cord compression, canal stenosis, and/or ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament. 
  • Imaging Approach to Myelopathy: Acute, Subacute, and Chronic. 
  • Impact of Age on Change in Self-Image 5 Years After Complex Spinal Fusion (≥5 Levels). 
  • Impact of body habitus on perioperative morbidity associated with fusion of the thoracolumbar and lumbar spine. 
  • Impact of dynamic alignment, motion, and center of rotation on myelopathy grade and regional disability in cervical spondylotic myelopathy. 
  • Impact of preoperative neurological status on perioperative morbidity associated with anterior and posterior cervical fusion. 
  • Importance of Sagittal Alignment of the Cervical Spine in the Management of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. 
  • In response. 
  • Increased 30-Day Complication Rates Associated with Laminectomy in 874 Adult Patients with Spinal Deformity Undergoing Elective Spinal Fusion: A Single Institutional Study. 
  • Inflammatory and dysplastic lesions involving the spine. 
  • Intermittent claudication: importance of etiologic differentiation as an aid in selecting therapy. 
  • Intraspinal transplantation of neurogenin-expressing stem cells generates spinal cord neural progenitors. 
  • Lhermitte's sign in cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency. 
  • Lupus-related myelopathy: report of three cases and review of the literature. 
  • Microglia Promote Increased Pain Behavior through Enhanced Inflammation in the Spinal Cord during Repeated Social Defeat Stress. 
  • National trends in spinal fusion for cervical spondylotic myelopathy. 
  • Neurological complications of systemic cancer. 
  • Optimizing Diffusion-Tensor Imaging Acquisition for Spinal Cord Assessment: Physical Basis and Technical Adjustments. 
  • Outcomes after laminoplasty compared with laminectomy and fusion in patients with cervical myelopathy: a systematic review. 
  • Pathologic quiz case: acute-onset paraplegia in a 60-year-old woman. Spinal cord infarction secondary to fibrocartilaginous (intervertebral disk) embolism. 
  • Pathophysiology of the spinal cord studied in vitro. 
  • Post-operative delirium is an independent predictor of 30-day hospital readmission after spine surgery in the elderly (≥65years old): A study of 453 consecutive elderly spine surgery patients. 
  • Postmortem diffusion MRI of the entire human spinal cord at microscopic resolution. 
  • Predictive factors affecting outcome after cervical laminoplasty. 
  • Proximal Junctional Kyphosis Prevention Strategies: A Video Technique Guide. 
  • Rates of new neurological deficit associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality committee. 
  • Reliability and diagnostic accuracy of clinical special tests for myelopathy in patients seen for cervical dysfunction. 
  • Role of computed tomography in the radiological evaluation of painful radiculopathy after negative myelography: foraminal neural entrapment. 
  • Safety, efficacy, and dosing of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 for posterior cervical and cervicothoracic instrumented fusion with a minimum 2-year follow-up. 
  • Spinal cord neural anatomy in rats examined by in vivo magnetic resonance microscopy. 
  • Spinal instrumentation in the setting of primary infection. 
  • Spinal meningeal diverticula in spontaneous intracranial hypotension: analysis of prevalence and myelographic appearance. 
  • Spine. 
  • Subacute combined degeneration due to copper deficiency. 
  • Subtle cord magnetic resonance changes in cervical myelomalacia. 
  • The Relationship Between Improvements in Myelopathy and Sagittal Realignment in Cervical Deformity Surgery Outcomes. 
  • The development of Lhermitte's sign during cisplatin chemotherapy. Possible drug-induced toxicity causing spinal cord demyelination. 
  • The future of spinal arthroplasty: a biomaterial perspective. 
  • The impact of standing regional cervical sagittal alignment on outcomes in posterior cervical fusion surgery. 
  • The impact of standing regional cervical sagittal alignment on outcomes in posterior cervical fusion surgery. 
  • The radiographic diagnosis and treatment of paraneoplastic central nervous system disease. 
  • The reliability of a self-reported measure of disease, impairment, and function in persons with spinal cord dysfunction. 
  • Thoracolumbar spinal deformity: evaluation and treatment. Foreword. 
  • Trajectory of Improvement in Myelopathic Symptoms From 3 to 12 Months Following Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy. 
  • Treatment of radiation-induced nervous system injury with heparin and warfarin. 
  • Unique Intradural Inflammatory Mass Containing Precipitated Morphine: Confirmatory Analysis by LESA-MS and MALDI-MS. 
  • Ventriculoperitoneal shunt failure causing myelopathy in a patient with bilateral jugular vein occlusion. Case report. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Gottfried, Oren N, Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurosurgery
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Velkey, John Matthew, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Medical Education in the Department of Cell Biology, Cell Biology