Song, Xitao Zheng, Yuehong Song, Xiaojun Wang, Xuebin Ye, Wei
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Journal of vascular surgery. Venous and lymphatic disorders
The specific anatomic characteristics of the iliac veins are often important reasons for stent failure. However, to the best of our knowledge, the inherent angles and configurations of the iliac veins have not been thoroughly studied. Fifty patients without venous diseases who had undergone computed tomography urography for diagnosis of urolithiasi...
Loudini, Naila Glaudemans, Andor W J M Jutte, Paul C Yakar, Derya Kwee, Thomas C
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Skeletal radiology
To determine the value of prebiopsy 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)/computed tomography (CT) in discriminating malignant from benign vertebral bone lesions. This retrospective study included 53 patients with 55 vertebral bone lesions that underwent FDG-PET/CT before CT-guided biopsy. Pathologic examination of the...
Hanberg, Pelle Bue, Mats Jørgensen, Andrea René Thomassen, Maja Öbrink-Hansen, Kristina Søballe, Kjeld Stilling, Maiken
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The spine journal : official journal of the North American Spine Society
Postoperative pyogenic spondylodiscitis is associated with prolonged antimicrobial therapy and high relapse rates. Cefuroxime is a time-dependent antimicrobial widely used for intravenous perioperative prophylaxis in spine surgery. A previous study has indicated that a single dose of cefuroxime (1.5 g) provides insufficient spine tissue concentrati...
Brignol, A Gueziri, H E Cheriet, F Collins, D L Laporte, C
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Computers in biology and medicine
Interpreting ultrasound (US) images of the spine is challenging due to the high variability of the contrast during freehand US acquisitions. In this paper, an automatic method to extract vertebral landmarks (spinous process and laminae) from US images acquired in the transverse plane is presented. Prior knowledge about the vertebral shape and the a...
Drobny, David Ranzini, Marta Isaac, Amanda Vercauteren, Tom Ourselin, Sébastien Choi, David Modat, Marc
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Biomedical Image Registration
Different pathologies of the vertebral column, such as scoliosis, require quantification of the mobility of individual vertebrae or of curves of the spine for treatment planning. Without the necessary mobility, vertebrae can not be safely re-positioned and fused. The current clinical workflow consists of radiologists or surgeons estimating angular ...
VERGARI, Claudio KARAM, Mohammad PIETTON, Raphaël VIALLE, Raphaël GHANEM, Ismat SKALLI, Wafa ASSI, Ayman
Purpose The origin of the deformity due to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is not known, but mechanical instability of the spine could be involved in its progression. Spine slenderness (the ratio of vertebral height to transversal size) could facilitate this instability, thus playing a role in scoliosis progression. The purpose of this work w...
Vergari, Claudio Karam, Mohammad Pietton, Raphael Vialle, Raphael Ghanem, Ismat Skalli, Wafa Assi, Ayman
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European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
The origin of the deformity due to adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is not known, but mechanical instability of the spine could be involved in its progression. Spine slenderness (the ratio of vertebral height to transversal size) could facilitate this instability, thus playing a role in scoliosis progression. The purpose of this work was to in...
Jennings, Hardy Alastair
This thesis is a study assessing the three-dimensional growth at the apical vertebral body in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). It utilized a novel reconstruction and alignment technique utilizing non-harmful magnetic resonance imaging scans to quantitively demonstrate growth asymmetry in AIS patients with progressive deformity, with aims to f...
Kessler, Remi A. Steinberger, Jeremy Chen, Sabrina Baron, Rebecca Caridi, John M.
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Surgical Neurology International
Background: Tuberculous spondylitis (Pott’s disease), a common extrapulmonary manifestation of tuberculosis (TB), typically presents with back pain, tenderness, paraparesis/paraplegia, and various constitutional symptoms. Due to radiological similarities between Pott’s disease and lung cancer, some lung cancer patients may initially be erroneously ...
Tan, Hui Xu, Hui Luo, Feifei Zhang, Zhaoguo Yang, Zhen Yu, Nan Yu, Yong Wang, Shaoyu Fan, Qiuju Li, Yue
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Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
PurposeOur purpose was to combine intravoxel incoherent motion diffusion-weighted MR imaging (IVIM-DWI) and magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to differentiate osteoporotic fractures from osteolytic metastatic vertebral compression fractures (VCFs).MethodsA total of 70 patients with VCFs were included and divided into two groups, according to th...
