AIDS is a devastating and deadly disease that affects people worldwide and, like all
infections, it comes without warning. Specifically, childbearing women with AIDS face constant …

Transforaminal Percutaneous Endoscopic Discectomy (TPED) is a minimally invasive
technique mainly used for the treatment of lumbar disc herniation from a lateral approach. …

Background One out of three adults over the age of 65 years and one out of two over the
age of 80 falls annually. Fall risk increases for older adults with severe knee osteoarthritis, a …

Background: Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is the prototype of a group of systemic rheumatic
diseases collectively referred to as Spondylarthitides (SpA). It has now become clear that AS …

The objective of this review is to summarize the knowledge about the anatomy of the lumbar
intervertebral foramen (IVF) as an anatomic entity. The intervertebral or neural foramen is an …

Background Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) constitutes the conventional
treatment of cervical disc herniation due to degenerative disc disease (DDD). ACDF with …

Purpose: Adjacent segment disease (ASD) constitutes a long-term complication of
instrumented spinal fusion. Aim of this study is to analyze the utilization of percutaneous …

Materials and Methods: We review relevant literature, and we present data obtained from
skeletal samples of known population and sex. One hundred and nineteen thoracic vertebrae …

Background Studies describing the efficacy of TPED on shortness of recovery and improvement
of postoperative quality of life are limited, especially regarding gender something that …

A 15-year-old female patient, with known history of torticollis, presented with mild neck pain
existing over the last 2 years. From her medical history, there was nothing noteworthy. …