Researchers analyzed the diagnostic value of stereotactic brain biopsy in patients with leukemia presenting central ...

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For patients who may benefit from such scans, it's unclear whether including the spine as well as the sacroiliac joint ...

As spinal cord injuries increasingly affect older adults, new research reveals a surprising pattern in recovery. The study ...

If one spine operation feels like running a marathon, imagine doing two at once. That’s the premise behind bifocal spinal surgery — tackling two separate regions (say, cervical and thoracic) in a ...

ABSTRACT: Purpose: Although the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM) continues to evolve rapidly with the introduction of new drugs, it is still considered an incurable disease. Given the wide variety ...

"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by doctors, meant for physicians and other healthcare professionals as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through ...

A 60-year-old man with a significant smoking history and breast cancer presented to the emergency department with severe back and left lower extremity pain. Clinical evaluation revealed metastatic ...

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IN PATIENTS with early axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), subtle but significant differences in structural spinal lesions are detectable on MRI but not on conventional radiography (CR), according to ...

Experts from the University of Nottingham have proven that multiple sclerosis (MS) can successfully be diagnosed using an MRI scan, meaning patients no longer need to undergo a painful lumbar puncture ...