Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of ... Treatment includes administration of corticosteroids, radiation therapy, surgery, and chemotherapy. Nurses should watch for early symptoms ...

Chemotherapy can also be used as an adjuvant therapy with irradiation or surgery in patients with breast cancer, prostate cancer, or multiple myeloma. The choice of chemotherapeutic agents depends ...

Objectives Degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) involves extrinsic spinal cord compression causing tissue injury and neurological dysfunction. Asymptomatic spinal cord compression (ASCC) is more ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD A pinched nerve in the lower back occurs when excessive pressure is applied to a ...

Suggested pathophysiological mechanisms to explain neuronal damage include ischemia from compression ... with spinal cord decompression plus antibiotic therapy (referred in this article as spinal ...

A pinched nerve in the neck, also known as cervical radiculopathy, can be alarming and painful. The neck, or cervical ...

Five spine surgeons reflect on patient cases that left a significant impression on them in 2024. Ask Spine Surgeons is a weekly series of questions posed to spine surgeons around the country about ...

Conclusions Myelopathies in our setting are dominated by spinal compressions. Metastasis is a leading cause of spinal cord compression with liver carcinoma being more frequent than reported elsewhere.

The singer said he could totally relate to wife actress Kimberly's scary voice issues. By Gil Kaufman If there’s one thing Brad Paisley can relate to it’s the mortal fear a performer has when ...

The wishing tree at the Queensland Children's Hospital in South Brisbane stands 24 hours a day, seven days a week all through ...

To determine if surgery would help her, Garrett says, her medical team injected a filler (hyaluronic acid —"the same filler that people use cosmetically") into her left cord to see if bulking it ...

OCR is inevitably linked to NLP since its final output is in text. Advances in document intelligence are driving the need for a unified technology that integrates OCR with various NLP tasks, ...