relevant literature. Case report Patient Information A 52-year-old woman in good health developed tingling of the thoracic back with associated numbness and weakness in the bilateral lower limbs while taking a bath 1 day ago. The thoracic back
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Scott D. Middleton, Ralf Wagner, and J. N. Alastair Gibson
case reports describing simple discectomy, 5 - 7 refinements of technique led to several variations in surgical approach. Posterolateral transforaminal decompression started as an ‘inside-out’ approach accessing the disc through a lateral
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debris (ARMD) ( 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ). There is also an increasing number of case reports describing systemic reactions in relation to elevated blood cobalt concentrations known as prosthetic hip-associated cobalt toxicity (PHACT) ( 5 , 6 ). Increased
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THA (RTHA) using an active robotic system (ROBODOC) ( 23 ), one clinical case reported conversion from hip fusion to THA using a semi-active robotic system (MAKO) ( 22 ), and two studies reported revision from primary THA to RTHA using a semi
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unauthorized treatments. 17 Phage therapy treatments are being increasingly reported in case reports, as well as the mainstream media, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the first randomized controlled trial (RCT) using phages for
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required and reference lists of each study checked for missing reports. Animal studies, biomechanical studies, purely technical notes with no quantitative outcome data and meeting presentation abstracts were excluded. Case reports were referenced and
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pain sensation ( 11 , 12 , 13 ). Figure 1 Cervical spinal cord MRI with syrin. There is currently very little evidence in the literature related to shoulder arthropathy due to SM. All data come from a few case reports and small case
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studies and (iii) case reports. Table 1 Overview of included studies. Reference Study design Level of evidence Minors, n Patients, n Age (years)* Gender ratio (M/F) Follow-up (months)* Zhou et al . (37) RCS III
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. There was a trend towards an increasing number of publications in more recent years, with 20 studies published from 2012–2015, and 88 studies published from 2016–2018 ( Fig. 3 ). Of these studies, 42 were case reports, 39 case series, 16 cohort studies
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( Table 1 ), 11 studies addressed only diagnostic and morphological aspects. The types of studies were level III or IV and included a case-control, 3 a case-series, 8 a case report, 12 a prospective cohort study 1 and a cadaveric study
