Charles H Cho,John M Mathis,Orlando Ortiz
Charles H Cho
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, and pai...
Bassem A Georgy
Bassem A Georgy
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 and to present potential future trends in ...
Celene Hadley,Omer Abdulrehman Awan,Gregg H Zoarski
Celene Hadley
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 li...
Orlando Ortiz,John M Mathis
Orlando Ortiz
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 injecte...
John M Mathis
John M Mathis
Ludvic Zrinzo
Ludvic Zrinzo
Functional neurosurgery involves precise surgical targeting of anatomic structures to modulate neurologic function. From its conception, advances in the surgical treatment of movement disorders have been intertwined with developments in med...
Helen Ling,Andrew J Lees
Helen Ling
The main role of computed axial tomography in the field of movement disorders was to exclude uncommon but potentially reversible structural abnormalities including tumors, chronic subdural hematoma, and communicating hydrocephalus presentin...
Fatta B Nahab,Mark Hallett
Fatta B Nahab
The functional magnetic resonance (fMR) technique for brain mapping is a valuable tool for understanding both normal physiology and the dysfunction taking place in disorders of the brain. This article provides an overview of fMR imaging met...
Jana Godau,Daniela Berg
Jana Godau
Transcranial B-mode sonography (TCS) may provide supplementary information to other neuroimaging methods, adding valuable information to the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of movement disorders. The value of TCS in the differential an...
Davina J Hensman,Peter G Bain
Davina J Hensman
The role for neuroimaging in the management of patients with tremor is gradually increasing, particularly with respect to stereotactic neurosurgery and deep brain stimulation where less than 2-mm tolerance is required for accurate electrode...