InVivo Therapeutics is developing a resorbable biomaterial scaffold, the investigational Neuro-Spinal Scaffold ... type injury that displaces the vertebral column, causing mechanical injury ...

Cancers that spread to the spine move to the bone marrow of the vertebral column by way of blood vessels. Spinal cord compression can also occur through direct tumor extension, which is frequently ...

The spinal cord is an important part of the central nervous system that carries signals between the brain and the body. It is protected by the vertebral column, a series of bones that surround and ...

There are different types of myelopathy named after the part of the spinal column affected. The compression of the spinal cord can block ... T12—accompanied by 12 vertebral discs, and 12 pairs ...

Epidemiology of demographic, clinical characteristics and hospital course of patients with spinal cord injury associated with vertebral fracture in a large private health care system in the United ...

Only rarely, however, does such a hemangioma cause spinal-cord compression. Myelocompression by hemangioma of the cervical vertebral bodies is particularly unusual. Since early recognition and ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed ... in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining vertebral bones are fused ...

Led by regenerative engineering pioneer Samuel I. Stupp, Northwestern University researchers developed a new injectable therapy that reverses paralysis and repairs tissue after severe spinal cord ...

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