While wrong-site spinal surgeries are rare, the ramifications of a mistake can be devastating for patients, providers and health systems. Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic is taking systemwide action ...

Traumatic spinal cord injury is defined as an acute injury of the spinal cord which results in a varying degree of paralysis and/or sensory disorder (1).Injury to the cauda equina is included in the ...

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Other goals include spinal column stabilization and local ... nerve blocks, corticosteroid therapy, and side effect management, best performed ... Symptoms of Spinal Cord Compression, by Tumor ...

This was followed by labeling of axons and nerve terminals with antibodies against the 165-kDa neurofilament protein (diluted 1:250) and the synaptic vesicle antigen SV2 (diluted 1:500).

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Permanent electrical stimulation of sacral nerve roots, sacral nerve stimulation (SNS), was first used in the late 1970s by Brindley et al. to treat neurogenic urinary retention (1).Just over ten ...