What is spinal cord compression? Spinal cord compression happens when pressure on the spinal cord stops the nerves working normally. This can cause back pain and other symptoms such as arm or leg ...

Arterial closure devices reduce major bleeding compared with manual compression in patients following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), with those at highest risk benefiting the most, ...

Radiotherapy alone is the most common treatment for metastatic epidural spinal cord compression (MESCC). Decompressive surgery followed by radiotherapy is generally indicated only in 10–15% of MESCC ...

Background A 47-year-old male underwent resection of a left-shoulder melanoma in 1997. In November 2004 he was found to have multiple brain lesions and adrenal, lung, and bone metastases, and in ...

Symptoms for MSCC include sensory changes, autonomic dysfunction, and back pain; however, back pain was not predictive of MSCC. The sensitivity and specificity for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ...

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 ...