When trauma patients receive a computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis, a technique called CT spine reformatting eliminates the need for X-rays of the thoracic and/or lumbar ...

The radiation dose for a CT fluoroscopy is about half that for conventional fluoroscopy to guide epidural steroid injections, however, the dose is substantially more than conventional fluoroscopy when ...

Dublin, April 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Spine X-Ray and Computed Tomography (CT) Market - A Global and Regional Analysis: Focus on Applications, Product, End Users, and Country-Wise Analysis - ...

Patients were exposed to 2.8-times more radiation when they underwent intraoperative CT navigation during placement of spine instrumentation than patients who underwent thoracolumbar instrumentation ...

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.

This book was originally published by Professor Hosten and Dr Liebig in 2000 and the English language translation was subsequently published in 2002. The stated intention of this book is to provide a ...

People attending an emergency department with a head injury have a CT cervical spine scan within 1 hour of a risk factor for spinal injury being identified. Head injuries can be fatal or cause ...

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 ...

‌Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get narrow or ...

A 10-year-old girl with no significant past medical history presented to the ED for evaluation of 6 months of progressively worsening back pain. During the preceding month, she began experiencing ...