Indwelling epidural catheters may be associated with infection, hematoma formation, or abscess. [9, 11–13] Although epidural hematomas associated with indwelling catheters are relatively rare ...

Coma scales have been developed for evaluating depth of consciousness and helping in prediction of outcome. This last issue is best assessed by several other clinical and neurophysiologic tests ...

A 61-year-old, right-hand dominant man was brought to the emergency department (ED) after catching a heavy object in his left arm and causing a hyperextension injury to his left elbow. He developed ...

Relatively little contrast medium is retained in the disk (1), owing to an extremely large tear in the posterior spinal ligament. Contrast medium is extruded into the epidural space (2).

A head injury is an injury to your brain, skull, or scalp. This can range from a mild bump or bruise to a traumatic brain injury. Learn more about the different types of injuries and when to seek ...

Hematoma expansion is associated with worse ICH outcome. There is now a range of neuroimaging markers that, along with clinical markers such as time since stroke onset and use of antithrombotic agents ...

Epidural hematoma, epidural empyema, nerve sheath tumor and meningioma were included in the differential diagnosis. Though rare, PEM of disc was also considered in the list of differential diagnosis.

This paper describes results for an ongoing research on the segmentation of the posterior fossa and the structures it contains in fetal brain MR images. A semi-automatic segmentation algorithm based ...

Objective To investigate whether posterior fossa decompression (PFD) could improve denervation of the paraspinal muscles in patients with Chiari I malformation (CMI). Background Paraspinal muscle ...

Purpose— Much has transpired since the last scientific statement on pediatric stroke was published 10 years ago. Although stroke has long been recognized as an adult health problem causing substantial ...