This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Vertebral pain conditions: osteoporosis with pathological fracture It happens again and again that pathological fractures of the spine, which have occurred without adequate force, are detected during imaging examinations. Advanced osteoporosis is often the underlying cause. This…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Vertebral noninflammatory lesions: Medullary changes The causes of medullary changes of the vertebrae are manifold. Inflammatory, tumorous and traumatic noxae as triggers usually lead to spongiosaedema. In the context of degenerative vertebral conditions, spongiosaedema, fatification…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Spine diagnostics Inflammatory muscular vertebral diseases Inflammatory myopathies may be idiopathic or pathogen-induced. It is also found concomitantly in collagenoses, granulomatoses, and malignant and paraneoplastic syndromes. Imaging diagnostics are primarily performed by magnetic resonance imaging, as…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Introduction spine diagnostics The spine is an essential part of the trunk skeleton. In the course of human life, it is exposed to permanent stress and in the different phases of life, image-morphologically…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Ankylosing spondylitis Help from TNF inhibition? One of the therapeutic goals in ankylosing spondylitis is to reduce spinal ankylosing progression. Data from the AxSpA cohort SCQM provide further evidence regarding the efficacy of TNF inhibitors.
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Chronic back pain Research into structural and functional changes in the brain In chronic back pain, structural as well as functional changes in the brain are reported, which are related to the duration of pain. Neurological signatures identified using modern imaging are…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Spondylodesis, disc prosthesis and co. - Part 2 Spine surgery for low back pain: what is possible when and how? Tailored individual surgical treatment is sought for surgical candidates with low back pain. With fusion surgery, good and very good results can be achieved in selected cases, superior to non-surgical…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Spondylodesis, disc prosthesis and co. - Part 1 Spine surgery for low back pain: what is possible? Chronic low back pain may have a defined pathomorphologic correlate; the main difficulty remains the detection of this correlate. The gold standard of evaluation for back pain is history, clinic,…
