Pain from sacral insufficiency fractures or metastatic tumor to the sacrum, refractory to radiation and/or chemotherapy, can be extremely debilitating to affected patients. Conservative medical therapy with rest, limited ambulation,…
Epidural steroid injections have been used for decades as part of a rehabilitation program to relieve back or neck pain and the associated radicular nerve component that often accompanies these…
Synovial cysts have long been known to create radicular pain in the spine, with the clinical effect mimicking a disk herniation. These cysts have traditionally been treated with open surgical…
The purpose of this article is to review the current state of the art of using vertebral augmentation techniques for treating symptomatic spinal fractures that are associated with malignant lesions…
Percutaneous vertebral augmentation is a successful means of relieving pain and reducing disability after vertebral compression fracture; however, the exact mechanism by which vertebral augmentation eliminates pain remains unproven. Most…
Vertebral augmentation techniques use image guidance for the percutaneous placement of spinal implants that stabilize a painful osteoporotic or pathologic vertebral compression fracture. The initial implant, acrylic bone cement, was…
Magnetic resonance image-guided focused ultrasound surgery (MRgFUS) has surfaced as a viable noninvasive image-guided therapeutic method that integrates focused ultrasound (FUS), the therapeutic component, with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the…
The utility of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) in diagnosis and evaluation of treatment response to human brain tumors has been widely documented. The role of MRS in tumor classification, tumors…
The eloquent brain can be identified using functional MR (fMR) imaging for the gray matter and diffusion tensor (DT) imaging for the white matter. fMR imaging and DT imaging are…
The prognosis for patients diagnosed with primary central nervous system tumors, such as gliomas, remains generally poor. Improved treatment (standard therapies and novel strategies) is needed. Glioma surgery is a…
