European Spine Journal

Case reports e-online in Supplement 1, 2017

Guillain–Barré syndrome following elective spine surgery

Nikhil Sahai, Ki Soo Hwang, Arash Emami

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension occurred after spinal surgery: report of two rare cases and systematic review of the literature

Zhengkuan Xu, Hao Li, Gang Chen, Fangcai Li, Shenjun Qian, Qixin Chen

Effects of spine loading in a patient with post-decompression lumbar disc herniation: observations using an open weight-bearing MRI

Niladri Kumar Mahato, Daryl Sybert, Tim Law, Brian Clark

Successfully treated transoral crossbow injury to the axial spine causing mild neurologic deficit: case presentation

Viktor Zsolt Kovari

Acute celiac artery compression syndrome after extensive correction of sagittal balance on an adult spinal deformity

Naoki Notani, Masashi Miyazaki, Toyomi Yoshiiwa, Toshinobu Ishihara, Hiroshi Tsumura

Delayed lymphocele formation following lateral lumbar interbody fusion of the spine

Hwee Weng Dennis Hey, Keng Lin Wong, Asrafi Rizki Gatam, Joel Louis Lim, Hee-Kit Wong

Long-term survival case of malignant glomus tumor mimicking “dumbbell-shaped” neurogenic tumor

Keiji Nagata, Hiroshi Hashizume, Hiroshi Yamada, Munehito Yoshida

Long-term management of congenital lordoscoliosis of the thoracic spine

Kee-Yong Ha, Seung-Woo Suh, Young-Hoon Kim, Sang-Il Kim

Calcium hydroxyapatite crystal deposition with intraosseous penetration involving the posterior aspect of the cervical spine: a previously unreported cause of neck pain

Julio Urrutia, Oscar Contreras

Solitary bone cyst of a lumbar vertebra treated with percutaneous steroid injection: a case report and review of literature

Toru Funayama, Alessandro Gasbarrini, Riccardo Ghermandi, Marco Girolami, Stefano Boriani

Minimally manipulative extraction of polycystic cervical neurocysticercosis

David R. Hansberry, Nitin Agarwal, Leroy R. Sharer, Ira M. Goldstein

A case report of spondylectomy with circumference reconstruction for aggressive vertebral hemangioma covering the whole cervical spine (C4) with progressive spinal disorder

Masayuki Nakahara, Kenki Nishida, Shinji Kumamoto, Yasukazu Hijikata, Kei Harada

Incidental occlusion of anterior spinal artery due to Onyx reflux in embolization of spinal type II arteriovenous malformation

Joohyun Kim, Jang-Bo Lee, Tai-Hyoung Cho, Junseok W. Hur

Serous degeneration of bone marrow mimics spinal tumor

Chih-Wei Sung, Kevin Li-Chun Hsieh, Yun-Ho Lin, Chun-Yi Lin, Chian-Her Lee, Yang-Hwei Tsuang, Yi-Jie Kuo

Accidental or linked: separated odontoid process fused to the enlarged anterior arch of the atlas associated with atlantoaxial subluxation in a Kashin–Beck disease patient

Xueyuan Wu, Ming Ling, Yanhai Chang, Zhengming Sun

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor in the paraspinal region mimicking a benign peripheral nerve sheath tumor: a case report

Weibo Pan, Bin Feng, Zhan Wang, Nong Lin, Zhaoming Ye

Giant chordoma in the thoracolumbar spine: a case report and literature review

Feifei Pu, Baichuan Wang, Jianxiang Liu, Fengxia Chen, Zengwu Shao

Repeated posterior dislocation of total hip arthroplasty after spinal corrective long fusion with pelvic fixation

Hiroki Furuhashi, Daisuke Togawa, Hiroshi Koyama, Hironobu Hoshino, Tatsuya Yasuda, Yukihiro Matsuyama

Primary intramedullary hydatid cyst: a case report and literature review

Zhenhai Zhang, Juan Fan, Yuanyuan Dang, Ruxiang Xu, Chunsen Shen

Aggressive osteoblastoma of the cervical spine involving the canal and vertebral artery: a case report

Kei Ando, Shiro Imagama, Kazuyoshi Kobayashi, Yoshihiro Nishida, Naoki Ishiguro

Spinal Rosai–Dorfman disease: case report and literature review

Haocheng Xu, Fan Zhang, Feizhou Lu, Jianyuan Jiang

Migratory low velocity intradural lumbosacral spinal bullet causing cauda equina syndrome: report of a case and review of literature

Sachin Baldawa, Vijay Shivpuje

Odontoid osteomyelitis with atlantoaxial subluxation in an infant

Hoon Park, Hyung Kwon Byeon, Hak-Sun Kim, Jung Jun Hong, Kyung-Soo Suk

Asymmetric C7 pedicle subtraction osteotomy for correction of rigid cervical coronal imbalance secondary to post-traumatic heterotopic ossification: a case report, description of a novel surgical technique, and literature review

Alexander A. Theologis, Kate D. Bellevue, Erion Qamirani, Christopher P. Ames, Vedat Deviren

A rare postoperative complication of anterior lower thoracic instrumentation: diaphragmatic laceration with hemothorax

Yat Wa Wong, Jason Pui Yin Cheung, Keith Dip Kei Luk, Kenneth Man Chee Cheung

Sudden paraplegia after lumbar puncture as a clue in the diagnosis of a patient with spinal dural arteriovenous fistula

Carmen García-Cabo, Germán Morís

Excision of an anterior intradural arachnoid cyst of the cervical spine through central corpectomy approach

Pratyush Shrestha, Prateek Shrestha, Upendra Prasad Devkota

Aneurysmal bone cyst of the spine treated by concentrated bone marrow: clinical cases and review of the literature

Giovanni Barbanti-Brodano, Marco Girolami, Riccardo Ghermandi, Silvia Terzi, Alessandro Gasbarrini, Stefano Bandiera, Stefano Boriani

Osteochondral loose body: an unusual cause of lumbar spinal stenosis

Katrina Treon, M. Ockendon

Extraordinary positional cervical spinal cord compression in extension position as a rare cause of postoperative progressive myelopathy after cervical posterior laminoplasty detected using the extension/flexion positional CT myelography: one case after laminectomy following failure of a single-door laminoplasty/one case after double-door laminoplasty without interlaminar spacers

Yasushi Fujiwara, Hideki Manabe, Takahiro Harada, Bunichiro Izumi, Nobuo Adachi

Danger of injudicious use of tui-na therapy in ankylosing spondylitis

Gen Zou, Guyi Wang, Jinxiu Li, Guobao Wu, Jia Huang, Siyang Huang

Congenital double-level cervical spondylolysis: a case report and review of the literature

Norio Yamamoto, Takaaki Miki, Yoshihisa Nasu, Akihiro Nishiyama, Tomoyuki Dan’ura, Yuzuru Matsui, Toshifumi Ozaki

Three cases of L4–5 Baastrup’s disease due to L5–S1 spondylolytic spondylolisthesis

Jin-suk Seo, Sang-Ho Lee, Han Joong Keum, Sang Soo Eun

A rare invasive hemangioma in cauda equina

Hongfei Xiang, Nana Shen, Bohua Chen, Xuexiao Ma, Gang Xin

A rare case of non-traumatic, multi-level, bilateral pedicle fractures of the lumbar spine in a 60-year-old patient

Timo Schmid, Paul Heini, Lorin Benneker

A case report of atypical long segmental thoracic hypertrophic pachymeningitis with ossification of ligamentum flavum and literature review

Ruofu Tang, Fangcai Li, Qixin Chen

Successful outcomes following transforaminal epidural steroid injections for C4/5 cervical disc prolapse associated with profound neurological deficit

Adam Meir, Keith Bush

‘Split and splayed C3’—traumatic lateral C2–3 dislocation without neurological deficits: unique case and its management

Apinderpreeet Singh, Pravin Salunke, Rajeev P. Kamble

Spontaneous cervical intradural disc herniation presenting with Brown-Séquard and Horner’s syndrome: lesson learned from a very unique case

Irene Baudracco, Gordan Grahovac, Vittorio M. Russo

Multiple intradural-extramedullary spinal ependymomas including tumors with different histological features

Akira Honda, Yoichi Iizuka, Junko Hirato, Hiroki Kiyohara, Haku Iizuka

Spontaneous and complete regeneration of a vertebra plana after surgical curettage of an eosinophilic granuloma

Francesca Di Felice, Fabio Zaina, Sabrina Donzelli, Stefano Negrini

Traumatic multiple cervical spine injuries in a patient with osteopetrosis and its management

Ashok Keshav Rathod, Rakesh Padmakar Dhake, Mandar Deepak Borde

Giant cell tumor of the thoracic spine completely removed by total spondylectomy after neoadjuvant denosumab therapy

Noritaka Yonezawa, Hideki Murakami, Satoshi Kato, Akihiko Takeuchi, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya

Temporary fusionless posterior occipitocervical fixation for a proximal junctional type II odontoid fracture after previous C2-pelvis fusion: case report, description of a new surgical technique, and review of the literature

Alexander A. Theologis, Vedat Deviren, Bobby Tay