DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Lumbar studies
Radionuclide cisternogram
A radionuclide cisternogram is a medical imaging study which involves injecting a radionuclide by lumbar puncture (spinal tap) into a patient's cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) to determine if there is abnormal CSF flow within the brain and spinal canal termed hydrocephalus. It may also evaluate a suspected leak (also known as a CSF fistula) from the CSF cavity into the nasal cavity. A leak can also be confirmed by the presence of beta-2 transferrin in fluid collected from the nose before this more invasive procedure is performed. The patient may be instructed to not eat or drink, or take medications such as aspirin or other blood thinners before the procedure...
Lumbar studies - List of case studies
- Recurrent episodes of dysuria in lower urinary tract
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column: slightly left convex extensive scoliosis of lumbar spine with initial signs of spondilosis, characterized by marginal ... This frequency is not consistent with previous urodynamic studies (2003) that revealed detrusor hypocontractility . ...
- List of Examinations
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Below is a full list of the examinations mentioned in case studies throughout the site. click on an examination name to view a list of ... MRI Cervical spine x-ray Cervical-dorsal-lumbar MRI with contrast medium Cervico-dorso-lumbar MRI CgA ...
- Diffuse Intra-Axial expansive Lesion of the Enchephalic Trunk not surgically investigated _3
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spread of the tumor down along the spinal cord to the lumbar and sacral areas . Such spread is not uncommon in brainstem ... pain control. (Case Studies) ...
- Motor Neuron Disease – another opinion
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including blood work, brain MRI and electro diagnostic studies were performed, the results are summarized below. Rilutek 50 mg ... i.e. positive and fibrillation potentials. Sometime lumbar puncture and muscle biopsy can be useful to rule out confounders of ...
- Tentorial Meningioma
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the stay in intensive care: presence of closed lumbar subarachnoid drainage. On Nov, the sedation is interrupted ... Zofran, Lixidol. (Case Studies) ...
- Myofascial back pain in a patient diagnosed with mild disc degeneration
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neurosurgeon consider the two disk hernias of the first lumbar segment and the two protrusions of the second lumbar segment? Do you think some treatment, even preventive in nature, is ... gluteal muscles</p> (Case Studies) ...
- Infiltrating basocellular carcinoma
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Bilateral Glaucoma; Arthritis of the lumbar spine; L5-S1 herniated disc with L3-L4 and L4-L5 disc protrusions and lumbar canal stenosis; Arterial hypertension pharmacologically ... irradiation". (Case Studies) ...
- Left cervicobrachialgia following cervical discectomy
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burning pain in the left leg? In addition to the lumbar MRI, which was negative, is there any other useful test to try and ... - Lumbosacral column : Reduced physiological lumbar lordosis . No morphology or focal-, evolutive-type signal abnormalities ... Lyrica, allopurinol. (Case Studies) ...
- Massive Portal and Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis
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at the upper abdominal quadrants level radiated at lumbar level bilaterally and associated to hyperpyrexia mainly at night that ... or liver abscesses were not found on multiple imaging studies. Gastroscopy and colonoscopy failed to show signs if inflammatory ...
- Guillain-Barré Syndrome / Acute Myeloradiculoneuritis
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left lumbalgia and lumbosciatic for which he underwent a lumbar MRI in 1997 with finding of small L4-L5 protrusion in the left ... ”. On 03.05, the patient also underwent a lumbar spinal tap and CSF test : clear and colourless aspect; cells 2 mm^3; ... test, IV steroids. (Case Studies) ...