A series of 14 patients with a protruded thoracic intervertebral disc is reported. We believe that the true incidence may be as high as one patient per million population per annum. Trauma, sometimes ...

Methods: We developed an automated and robust pipeline that generates and simulates biofidelic vertebrae and intervertebral disc finite element method (FEM ... which occurred in regions of small ...

Objectives The circadian clocks are internal timing mechanisms that drive ∼24-hour rhythms in a tissue-specific manner. Many aspects of the physiology of the intervertebral disc (IVD) show clear ...

The lumbar region is located between the thoracic (chest) region of the spine and the sacrum ... Above and below each vertebra is an intervertebral disc. The disc serves as a shock absorber between ...

Syndesmophytes were scored in coronal and sagittal planes in eight quadrants per vertebral unit (VU) as absent=0, <50% of the intervertebral disc space (IDS)=1, ≥50%=2 or bridging the ... and 3 (4) ...

The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are stacked one upon another. The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as ...

Correspondence to British Thoracic Society, 17, Doughty Street, London WC1N 2PL, UK; bts{at}brit-thoracic.org.uk and Dr Charlotte E Bolton, Nottingham Respiratory Research Unit, University of ...

There is also multifocal intervertebral disk degeneration and non-compressive thoracic vertebral malformations. The cranial limit of HSM was at C1 vertebra in seven dogs (39%) and at C2 in 11 (61%).

I thought moving into 2025 would ease the woes of stock shrotages, but it is still proving very hard to buy a PS5 disc drive. The disc drive is barely popping up at retailers. The PS5 Pro is a ...