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The authors report a clinical case of a 48-year-old female patient admitted to the Neurological Division following acute symptoms characterised by generalised asthenia, motory disorders (incoordination, equilibrium or gait deficit) accompanied by diplopia. Instrumental (medullary and encephalic NMR)
BACKGROUND
Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is an inheritable disorder of bone development caused by defective collagen synthesis. The attendant basilar impression or secondary basilar invagination is uncommon but can be devastating.
METHODS
Fifty-two patients with osteochondrodysplasia (28 with OI, six
BACKGROUND
Neck pain is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders in clinical practice. However neck pain may mask more serious pathology. Although uncommon in most musculoskeletal physiotherapy practices, it is possible to encounter rare and extremely life-threatening conditions, such as
BACKGROUND
Charcot arthropathy, also known as Neuropathic arthropathy (NA), is an unusual chronic degenerative disease. To date, there exists a paucity of research on NA caused by syringomyelia.
UNASSIGNED
A 52-year-old non-diabetic female presented with progressive swelling, pain and limited
METHODS
A case report of craniocervical spine lesions including basilar impression, atlantoaxial dislocation, and syringomyelia, with osteogenesis imperfecta is presented, and the literature is reviewed.
OBJECTIVE
To discuss the problems involved in the surgical management of craniocervical spine
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disorder, characterized by polyarticular inflammation causing progressive joint damage and disability. The mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis involve activation of innate and adaptive immunity, microvascular endothelial cell activation, and
The Wildervanck syndrome consists of the Klippel-Feil deformity of the spine, eyeball retraction, lateral gaze weakness, and hearing loss. Conductive hearing loss, as well as a more frequently occurring sensorineural hearing loss, is caused by dysplasia of the inner ear. Typically, polytomograms
Knowledge of the role and hazards of transoral surgery has expanded rapidly, but the application of this technique in children has been limited. To assess its usefulness, 27 pediatric patients who underwent transoral surgery between 1985 and 1994 were studied. Transoral surgery was performed for
A 19-year-old girl with carpal and tarsal osteolysis has been presented. The clinical course was characterized by normal early growth and motor development followed by the insidious onset in early childhood of a progressive, peripheral joint destruction, especially in the tarsal and carpal bones.
Eight cases, 5 males and 3 females, of Chiari type 1 malformation aged from 9 to 51 years (mean 33.3 years) were analysed. The average age of the onset of symptoms was 29.6 years, between 7 and 44 years, and that from the onset of symptoms to the presentation to the hospital was 3.3 years ranged