A lumbar puncture is a test to check the fluid that circulates around the brain and spinal cord. This is called the cerebrospinal fluid or CSF. A lumbar puncture can check for cancer cells or for ...

Pseudoarthrosis occurs when bones don’t heal after a fracture or bone surgery. When pseudoarthrosis affects the cervical or lumbar spine, it means that two vertebrae did not grow together after ...

Prehabilitation interventions prior to elective lumbar spine procedure may provide modest reductions in pain, disability, and health care costs, however, due to suboptimal certainty of evidence ...

The VAS score before and after surgery and postoperative neurological complications were recorded. All 88 patients underwent three-dimensional CT scans of the thoracic/lumbar spine after PKP surgery.

Lumbar stenosis ... structures. CT is also particularly valuable for patients who can’t undergo MRI due to pacemakers or claustrophobia or when detailed assessment of bony anatomy is required ...

The show we can't seem to let go of. Whipple procedures, dancing it out, McSteamy and McDreamy… Grey’s Anatomy has been the comforting (and at times stress-inducing, heartbreaking and tense) constant ...

The lumbosacral joint, also called L5-S1, is a term used to describe a part of the spine. L5-S1 is the exact spot where the lumbar spine ends and the sacral spine begins. The lumbosacral joint ...

Northwell Health and Nuvance Health have reached an agreement with Connecticut state regulators allowing the merger of the two health systems. In what has been reported in Connecticut publications ...

In August 1955, the Steele Brook in Watertown, swollen with runoff from back-to-back hurricanes, overflowed its banks in a raging torrent that caused immense property damage. In a low-lying ...

It’s not clear what the difference in pricing will be, and the X-ray tubes represent a fraction of the company’s CT system revenue, he wrote in a research note. “Where we are more cautious, however, ...

Longtime specialty market closing after decades in CT. ‘This wasn’t an easy decision,’ owners say. Longtime specialty market closing after decades in CT. 'This wasn’t an easy decision ...