A5080835516- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Meningioma and schwannoma management
- Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
- Bone and Joint Diseases
- Pressure Ulcer Prevention and Management
- Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
- Wound Healing and Treatments
- Spinal Hematomas and Complications
- Ocular Oncology and Treatments
- Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Bone health and treatments
- Amoebic Infections and Treatments
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Vascular Malformations Diagnosis and Treatment
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Intracranial Aneurysms: Treatment and Complications
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Ethics in medical practice
- Tattoo and Body Piercing Complications
- Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer Assessment and Management
Johns Hopkins University
2023
WinnMed
2019-2020
Mayo Clinic in Florida
2019-2020
Oxford University Press (United Kingdom)
2020
Neurological Surgery
2020
Jacksonville College
2019
Mayo Clinic Hospital
2018
Cavernomas make up approximately 8%-15% of all intracranial vascular malformations, and the most common presenting symptom is seizures. Complete resection cavernoma removal surrounding gliotic core presents a cure but poses challenge if an eloquent brain involved or with incomplete epileptogenic foci. The authors present case 53-year-old man intractable seizures from left posterior temporal lobe who underwent awake craniotomy intraoperative seizure monitoring via electrocorticography. video...
Spinal epidural abscess caused by MRSA, a life-threatening organism resistant to methicillin and other antibiotics, is rare but important infectious pathology due its potential damage the spinal cord. We present case of 74-year-old man who hematogenously seeded his entire canal from C1 sacrum with MRSA bacteria remained infected even after maximal treatment vancomycin daptomycin. Ceftaroline, new 5th generation antibiotic recently described clearance widespread infection in complex spine...
Spinal intradural arachnoid cysts are rare, benign lesions of the spinal cord that can arise as a primary lesion or secondary due to inflammatory processes. Symptoms range from an asymptomatic incidental finding progressive myelopathy, with paresthesia and neuropathic pain. We present case 80-year-old female longstanding history back pain, urinary incontinence, difficulty ambulating frequent falls, rapid progression her symptoms prior presentation. Physical examination revealed lower...
Osteoporosis is a common cause of vertebral compression fractures. Often times affecting post-menopausal women, these fractures may occur spontaneously or following minor trauma and are typically managed non-surgically. Here we present case 67-year-old patient who presented with acute fracture the lumbar 5 vertebra bilateral pedicle fourth fifth vertebrae an episode coughing secondary to tracheitis. She underwent 3 sacral 1/ilium instrumentation/arthrodesis, screw augmentation via...
Introduction Cervical kyphotic deformity can be quite debilitating. Most patients present with neck pain, but they also radiculopathy, myelopathy, altered vertical gaze, swallowing problems, and even cosmetic issues from the severe deformity. After failing conservative management, surgery remains only option for halting symptom progression. Surgical options cervical kyphosis have included anterior-only approaches, posterior-only or 360- 540-degree reconstructions. This paper addresses...
Wounds, especially chronic wounds, can be clinically challenging to manage. The presence of a wound in patient not only cause nociceptive pain but also psychological and emotional pain. In extreme cases, they life-threatening if present with infection sepsis from poor care. This paper highlights the care skilled nursing facility who presented very complicated post-surgical abdominal wound, secondary an infected incision. was concerned about size, depth, nature talks were underway transfer...
Body tattoos spanning a surgical incision area are increasingly common encounter, especially as the popularity of body increases in western cultures. Preserving integrity these after poses challenge to surgeon and if not done right, can be source distress patient regardless how successful surgery was addressing primary pathology. The is 38 year-old female with 2 year history mechanical back pain refractory conservative therapy. A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging showed an L5-S1 disc...
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Online date: November 16, 2020 This article is published and distributed under the terms of Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model)