European Spine Journal

Case Reports: Accepted between 17 May 2009 and 11 May 2010 - Electronic Only

Onset of a Charcot spinal arthropathy at a level lacking surgical arthrodesis in a paraplegic patient with traumatic cord injury

Luca Proietti, Enrico Pola, Luigi A. Nasto, Laura Scaramuzzo, Carlo A. Logroscino

Painful camptocormia: the relevance of shaking your patient’s hand

Arnaud Dupeyron, Nina Stober, Anthony Gelis, Giovani Castelnovo, Pierre Labauge, Jacques Pélissier

The single transoral approach for Os odontoideum with irreducible atlantoaxial dislocation

Xiang Wang, Cun-Yi Fan, Zhen-Hua Liu

Image fusion for preoperative evaluation of vertebral artery in a patient with atlantoaxial vertical subluxation and chronic renal failure

Ryo Kadota, Masashi Yamazaki, Tomonori Endo, Akihiko Okawa, Masao Koda

Cervical synovial cyst: case report and review of literature

Francesco Costa, Claudia Menghetti, Andrea Cardia, Maurizio Fornari, Alessandro Ortolina

Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in the Medici, Grand Dukes of Florence (XVI century)

Valentina Giuffra, Sara Giusiani, Antonio Fornaciari, Natale Villari, Angelica Vitiello, Gino Fornaciari

Spinal neuroarthropathy associated with Guillain–Barré syndrome

Raphael Jameson, Christian Garreau de Loubresse, Ali Maqdes

Pathological dislocation of the dorsal spine following granulocytic sarcoma in a non-leukaemic patient

Rohit Amritanand, K. Venkatesh, Anne J. Premkumar, Gabriel D. Sundararaj

Posterior atlantoaxial dislocation without fracture and neurologic deficit: a case report and the review of literature

Lei-Sheng Jiang, Lei Shen, Wei Wang, Hao Wu, Li-Yang Dai

Spinal cord compression caused by idiopathic intradural arachnoid cysts of the spine: review of the literature and illustrated case

Athanasios K. Petridis, Alexandros Doukas, Harald Barth, Hubertus Maximilian Mehdorn

Two different causes of acute respiratory failure in a patient with diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and ankylosed cervical spine

Rok Vengust, René Mihalič, Matjaž Turel

The use of recombinant human BMP-2 as a salvage procedure in the pediatric spine: a report on 3 cases

Kiril V. Mladenov, Philip Kunkel, Ralf Stuecker

Incarcerated herniation of the cervical spinal cord after laminectomy for an ossification of the yellow ligament

Yu-ichiro Ohnishi, Koichi Iwatsuki, Kazuhiro Yoshimura, Masahiro Ishihara, Toshiki Yoshimine

The role of kyphoplasty in the management of osteogenesis imperfecta: risk or benefit?

Carl Hans Fürstenberg, Thomas Grieser, Bernd Wiedenhöfer, Hans Jürgen Gerner, Cornelia Marianne Putz

Radicular interdural lumbar disc herniation

Ali Akhaddar, Omar Boulahroud, Abad Elasri, Brahim Elmostarchid, Mohammed Boucetta

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in the intradural extramedullary space of the lumbar spine with spondylolisthesis: case report and review of the literature

Sang Hoon Yoon, Ki-Jeong Kim, Sang Ki Chung, Hyun-Jib Kim, Gheeyoung Choe, Sang Bong Chung, Yong Jun Jin

Cauda equina entrapment in a pseudomeningocele after lumbar Schwannoma extirpation

D. L. Marinus Oterdoom, Rob J. M. Groen, Maarten H. Coppes

Unusual bone formation in the anterior rim of foramen magnum: cause, effect and treatment

Atul Goel, Abhidha Shah

Posterior epidural fibrotic mass associated with Baastrup’s disease

Eui-Chan Jang, Kwang-Sup Song, Han-Jun Lee, Jae Yoon Kim, Jae Jun Yang

Intramedullary lumbar lesion mimicking spinal cord tumor: a case of non-neoplastic intramedullary spinal cord lesion

İlker Solmaz, Mehmet B. Önal, Erdinç Civelek, Sait Şirin, Serdar Kahraman

Findings from CT, MRI, and PET/CT of a primary malignant melanoma arising in a spinal nerve root

Nyoung Keun Lee, Byung Hoon Lee, Yoon Joon Hwang, Moon-Jun Sohn, Sunhee Chang, Yong Hoon Kim, Soon Joo Cha, Hyeon Je Cho

Autonomic dysreflexia associated with Charcot spine following spinal cord injury: a case report and literature review

Masahiro Morita, Motoki Iwasaki, Shinya Okuda, Takenori Oda, Akira Miyauchi

Post-traumatic thoracic scoliosis with rib head dislocation and intrusion into the spinal canal: a case report and review of literature

Thomas J. Kishen, Bibhudendu Mohapatra, Ashish D. Diwan, Greg Etherington

The use of the three-pronged Mayfield head clamp resulting in an intracranial epidural hematoma in an adult patient

Michael J. Lee, Eric L. Lin

Spontaneous hemorrhage into a lumbar synovial cyst

Marta Cicuendez, Jose F. Alen, Ana Ramos, Ramiro D. Lobato, Alfonso Lagares

Intralesional hemorrhage and thrombosis without rupture in a pure spinal epidural cavernous angioma: a rare cause of acute lumbal radiculopathy

Frank Floeth, Markus Riemenschneider, Jörg Herdmann

Extreme lateral lumbar disc herniation in a 12-year child: case report and review of the literature

Sheng-Dan Jiang, Lei-Sheng Jiang, Li-Yang Dai

Fatal fat embolism in isolated vertebral compression fracture

Ricardo R. Lastra, Vilas Saldanha, Manjula Balasubramanian, John Handal

Left iliac artery injury during anterior lumbar spine surgery diagnosed by intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring

M. Nathan Nair, Rohan Ramakrishna, Jeff Slimp, Gregory Kinney, Randall M. Chesnut

Neurological recovery after surgical treatment of giant cervical pseudomeningoceles extending to lumbar spine associated with previous brachial plexus injury

Yoshihisa Kotani, Kuniyoshi Abumi, Manabu Ito, Satoshi Terae, Yukiyoshi Hisada, Akio Minami

Leprotic cervical spondylodiscitis

Sang Jin Kim, Tae Hoon Lee, Jun Jae Shin, Gue Tae Chae

Acute spinal cord compression due to epidural lipomatosis complicated by an abscess: magnetic resonance and pathology findings

Giulio Zuccoli, Nicolò Pipitone, Nicola De Carli, Luigi Vecchia, Stefano C. Bartoletti

Could an osteoinductor result in degeneration of a neurofibroma in NF1?

Steib Jean-Paul, Bouchaïb Julia, Walter Axel, Schuller Sébastien, Charles Philippe

Late-onset post-diskectomy tuberculosis at the same operated lumbar level: case report and review of literature

Iraj Lotfinia, Payman Vahedi