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 ...

Only rarely, however, does such a hemangioma cause spinal-cord compression. Myelocompression by hemangioma of the cervical vertebral ... be interpreted grossly as tumor. It seemed as if all ...

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 ...

When Teresa Janvrin retired in May 2023 from a long, successful teaching career at Warrensburg Middle School, life threw her its biggest challenge yet.

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed. There are many things that can cause this, but one of the most common is cervical ...

This can occur when the spinal cord becomes compressed either by trauma, inflammation, tumors, or the aging-related ... named after the part of the spinal column affected. The compression of ...

Since the pain was impacting his daily life, Steve Loutzenhiser went for an MRI and found out, at only 41 years old, he had a tumor in his spinal cord that could not be easily removed. His wife ...