Thoracic vertebral fractures may worsen lung function and reduce lung volumes in patients with interstitial lung disease.

Currently, there is no consensus on the most effective medical therapy for posterior circulation ischemia. To date, there have been no randomized trials studying the use of different antiplatelet ...

The study included children and adolescents, and it found decreased vertebral height and depth among both groups of patients compared with healthy controls. Young patients with spinal muscular atrophy ...

Objective: To illustrate the significance of vertebral body infarction as the only confirmatory sign of spinal cord ischemic stroke. Setting: Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Bochum, ...

CEREBROVASCULAR disease ranked third, after heart disease and cancer, as a cause of death in the United States in 1959. Almost 37,000 of these deaths occurred in persons between thirty-eight and sixty ...

Aromatase inhibitors (AIs) are a cornerstone of adjuvant therapy for hormone receptor–positive breast cancer, significantly reducing recurrence and mortality. However, by suppressing estrogen ...

Scoliosis is the most common spinal deformity affecting pediatric patients. A posterior spinal fusion (PSF) is the gold standard treatment for patients with curves exceeding 45 degrees, but the ...

Abbreviation: SINS, Spinal Instability Neoplastic Scoring system. The median and mean times to fracture for the entire group who experienced fracture were 2.46 months and 6.33 months, respectively ...

Denosumab, a well-tolerated, injectable inhibitor of osteoclast-mediated bone resorption, has been shown in randomized controlled trials to reduce significantly the risk of vertebral and nonvertebral ...

Oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum or OAVS is a developmental disorder of craniofacial morphogenesis. Although the origin of OAVS is not yet identified, it is likely complex. Image Credit: Portrait ...