Dr. Isaac Moss, an orthopedic surgeon at UConn Health, can see his patient’s spinal column during surgery without cutting the back open or even having to look at a two-dimensional X-ray on a screen.
Can you describe the findings on this CT scan? Test your clinical knowledge using the following example. Post-myelogram CT scan shows impingement caused by facet hypertrophy and the infolding of the ...
Edurne Heredia’s lowest lumbar vertebra was not whole. Rather than being mostly round, it was essentially triangular, according to her surgeon, Dr. Herdeep Singh of UConn Health’s Comprehensive Spine ...
STAMFORD — Brynn Blystone knows a thing or two about playing through pain. As a veteran of the hotel and hospitality industry, the 36-year-old has gritted her teeth and put in shifts at restaurants ...
North Haven, CT-Spinal fixation implants can be a real pain in the neck-not just for the patients, but for the surgeons too. Used to stabilize surgically fused vertebrae, the implants consist of a ...
Spinal epidural abscess (SEA) is a serious infection of the central nervous system that typically presents with midline back pain, fever and neurological deficits. We report a rare case of an ...