neck pain/necrosis

A 38-year-old man experienced severe neck pain while playing badminton. This was followed by symptoms of vertebrobasilar ischaemia, seizure and coma. Autopsy showed bilateral vertebral artery dissection and cystic medial necrosis.

A 66-year-old woman complained of fever, sore throat, and neck pain due to pharyngitis and painful lymph node swelling. CBC revealed severe pancytopenia and markedly hypocellular marrow. The administration of antibiotics and granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) successfully ameliorated the

A prospective study was carried out on fifty hips in forty-eight patients with Ficat stage III (Steinberg stage IV) avascular necrosis (head deformity evident on plain x-ray) involving the supero-ventral segment. Mean age was 33 +/- 8 years (mean and standard deviation). There were thirty-six male

We describe a 75-year-old male patient who developed a general syndrome, with a fever of 39 degrees C, weight loss, and cervical pain, during the month following a urological procedure. The presence of positive blood cultures for Enterococcus faecalis, aortic vegetations, and severe aortic

OBJECTIVE This study investigated whether the production of inflammatory mediators and chemotactic cytokines (chemokines) is altered in patients with chronic and recurrent neck pain (NP). METHODS Cross-sectional data evaluating blood and serum samples were obtained from 27 NP patients and 13

Background and objective: Mechanisms underpinning symptoms in non-traumatic neck pain (NTNP) and whiplash-associated disorder (WAD) are not comprehensively understood. There is emerging evidence of systemic inflammation in musculoskeletal

BACKGROUND Etanercept, a recombinant biologic anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha therapeutic, is approved for the treatment of certain autoimmune arthritides by subcutaneous (SC) injection. TNF-alpha has been suggested to play a central role in neuropathic pain and neuronal damage associated

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of treatment with a novel noninvasive interactive neurostimulation device (InterX5000) on the production of inflammatory biomarkers in chronic and recurrent mechanical neck pain (NP) syndrome. METHODS This study represents pilot

To evaluate the effect of auricular point acupressure (APA) on axial neck pain after anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) surgery. A prospective randomized controlled trial was performed. Twenty-nine participants were randomly divided into two groups, real or sham APA. Participants were

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is an uncommon clinical condition in pediatric field. We report two pediatric cases with first time wheezing episode complicated by pneumomediastinum. Investigations failed to reveal any underlying cause for secondary pneumomediastinum. Pneumomediastinum most commonly

A case of staphylococcal epidural abscess associated with infliximab and methotrexate therapy in a patient with psoriatic arthropathy is presented. He presented atypically with chest pain, on a background of long standing history of neck pain, and rapid progression to complete paraplegia. Clinicians

A 24-year-old woman was found dead in her bed. There had been an episode of fainting with cervicodynia 1 day before death but no significant past medical history, except for menstrual irregularities. Post-mortem examination revealed that death was due to hemopericardium caused by rupture of the

We report one case of subacute thyroiditis associated with acute hepatitis, which is histopathologically diagnosed. A 43-year-old woman visited our hospital with chief complaints of fever, sore throat and anterior neck pain. Thyroid gland was found to be swollen and tender. Laboratory findings gave