A 47 year-old man underwent routine lumbar laminectomy for a herniated disk. Following the surgery, he developed progressive leg weakness and then paraplegia and urinary incontinence. On examination, ...

Acute compression of the spinal cord is a devastating but treatable disorder. Diseases that cause acute spinal cord compression constitute a special category because they originate in the spinal ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a drug safety advisory with recommendations aimed at reducing the risk of spinal column bleeding after spinal intervention, including epidural ...

COVID-19 infection is associated with ischemic and hemorrhagic spinal stroke, with distinct clinical characteristics and underlying mechanisms.

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio A 65-year-old man presented to the ED ...

Neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists injected a biosynthetic "glue" to seal off a spinal fluid leak and restore a comatose patient to consciousness. An article describing the case appears in the ...

Medically reviewed by Sameena Zahoor, MDMedically reviewed by Sameena Zahoor, MD The meninges of the brain and spinal cord are three layers of membranes: the dura mater, arachnoid mater, and pia mater ...