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Clinical Neurology
Nandish G. Shah, Abhishek Keraliya, Mitchel B. Harris, Christopher M. Bono, Bharti Khurana
Summary: A study comparing spine injuries in DISH and AS patients found a lower prevalence of posterior element injury in DISH patients compared to AS patients on CT or MRI. In patients with isolated vertebral body fractures without neurological deficits detected on CT, MRI revealed a significantly lower rate of posterior element injury in DISH patients compared to AS patients.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michal Latalski, Tomasz Szponder, Grzegorz Starobrat, Edward Warda, Magdalena Wojciak, Slawomir Dresler, Anna Danielewicz, Jan Sawicki, Ireneusz Sowa
Summary: Flexible spine tethering is a novel surgical technique that corrects scoliosis by activating vertebral growth plate function. Using a rat tail model, this study found that after correction, the activity and thickness of the growth plate increased. Relief of pressure on the growth plate during correction allows the physiological activity of growth cartilage to resume and restores the deformed vertebral body.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2022)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Ralph Laeubli, Robin Brugger, Tatiana Pirvu, Sven Hoppe, Dominik Sieron, Karol Szyluk, Christoph E. Albers, Andreas Christe
Summary: This study found that the presence of disproportionate motion segments in the lower spine may lead to a significantly higher risk for disc herniation in patients undergoing discectomy.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Pavel Proks, Trude Maria Johansen, Ivana Nyvltova, Dominik Komenda, Hana Cernochova, Massimo Vignoli
Summary: This study reviewed radiographs of the vertebral column in 240 guinea pigs to determine numerical variants and the prevalence of congenital anomalies. Results showed nine numerical variants of vertebral columns, with 12.5% of guinea pigs having congenital anomalies predominantly in the thoracolumbar and lumbosacral regions. These findings contribute to the understanding of clinical morphology in guinea pigs and have implications for both research and clinical practice.
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Orthopedics
Feng Wang, Rui Sun, Shao-Dong Zhang, Xiao-Tao Wu
Summary: This study aimed to compare the risk factors, vertebral compression degree, and back pain characteristics between thoracolumbar osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (TL-OVCF) and non-thoracolumbar OVCF (nTL-OVCF). The results showed that TL-OVCF had a higher risk than nTL-OVCF, and nTL-OVCF was not associated with female gender, apparent spine trauma, or poor bone mineral density but tended to cause longer duration of pre-hospital back pain.
JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND RESEARCH
(2023)
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Clinical Neurology
Ikchan Jeon, Sang Woo Kim, Dongwoo Yu
Summary: This study aimed to identify the role of paraspinal muscle fatty degeneration as a risk factor for progressive vertebral body collapse in patients with osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCF). The results showed that paraspinal muscle fatty degeneration was strongly associated with vertebral collapse difference, and there was a significant correlation between the progression in vertebral collapse and visual analogue scale (VAS) score.
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Choong Guen Chee, Min A. Yoon, Kyung Won Kim, Yusun Ko, Su Jung Ham, Young Chul Cho, Bumwoo Park, Hye Won Chung
Summary: The combined radiomics-clinical model showed good calibration and discrimination in predicting malignancy of vertebral compression fractures on CT. It outperformed both the radiomics score and clinical predictor model in terms of discrimination performance and accurately stratified patients into low and high risk groups.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2021)
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Euijoon Choi, Doohyun Park, Geonhui Son, Seongwon Bak, Taejoon Eo, Daemyung Youn, Dosik Hwang
Summary: This study develops a weakly supervised deep learning model for vertebral-level VCF classification using image-level labelled data. The proposed model shows comparable or better performance in vertebral-level analysis.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2023)
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Weijuan Chen, Xi Liu, Kunhua Li, Yin Luo, Shanwei Bai, Jiangfen Wu, Weidao Chen, Mengxing Dong, Dajing Guo
Summary: The study included 1877 VCFs in 1099 patients, and the DL model could accurately identify fresh VCFs from DR. Lateral views performed better than anteroposterior views, with the best performance seen in grade 3 and crush-type subgroups.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Hans Liebl, David Schinz, Anjany Sekuboyina, Luca Malagutti, Maximilian T. Loeffler, Amirhossein Bayat, Malek El Husseini, Giles Tetteh, Katharina Grau, Eva Niederreiter, Thomas Baum, Benedikt Wiestler, Bjoern Menze, Rickmer Braren, Claus Zimmer, Jan S. Kirschke
Summary: With the development of deep learning algorithms, fully automated radiological image analysis is approaching reality. The VerSe 2020 dataset includes annotated spine CT images, covering various anatomical variations of vertebrae.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Juichi Tonosu, Yasuteru Yamaguchi, Akiro Higashikawa, Kenichi Watanabe
Summary: Vertebral hemangiomas of the spine are rare benign tumors that occur primarily in the thoracic region. Ethanol sclerosis therapy, performed with local or general anesthesia and fluoroscopic or computed tomography guidance, is an effective treatment option for these tumors. Complications of the therapy include hypotension, arrhythmia, paralysis, and delayed compression fractures.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xiaoming Tian, Yachong Huo, Felicity Y. Han, Dalong Yang, Wenyuan Ding, Sidong Yang
Summary: Old compression vertebrae fracture or congenital kyphoscoliosis can cause severe thoracolumbar kyphotic deformity, which may result in intractable low back pain or compression of the spinal cord. Surgical treatment is usually required if conservative treatment is ineffective. We have developed a modified technique for unilateral removal of the diseased vertebra, which reduces the risks associated with osteotomy and shortens the surgery time and blood loss.
JOVE-JOURNAL OF VISUALIZED EXPERIMENTS
(2022)
Review
Clinical Neurology
Kanwaljeet Garg, Atmaranjan Dash, Ankita Aggarwal, Stephan Duetzmann
Summary: This study reviewed 61 cases of vertebral pneumatocyst and found that the prevalence of pneumatocysts increased with age, with most patients being between 50-70 years old. Pneumatocysts were most common in the cervical spine, with C5 being the most commonly affected vertebra. Most pneumatocysts remained stable in size on follow-up, although there were 3 reported cases of enlarging pneumatocyst.
WORLD NEUROSURGERY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Yi Mao, Wangsheng Wu, Junchao Zhang, Zhou Ye
Summary: This study aimed to develop a prediction model to assess the risk of adjacent vertebral compression fractures (AVCFs) after percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) surgery. Retrospective chart reviews were conducted on patients who underwent PKP surgery at Quzhou People's Hospital from March 2017 to May 2019. The study identified several predictors for AVCF risk, including gender, age, number of surgical vertebrae, cement volume, bone mineral density, diabetes, hypertension, bone cement leakage, duration of anti-osteoporosis treatment after surgery, and TL junction.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Qing-Rong Liu, Min Zhu, Qinghua Chen, Maja Mustapic, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, Josephine M. Egan
Summary: This study uncovered novel peptides associated with human-specific IAPP isoforms, which could serve as blood-based biomarkers for early Alzheimer's disease and be developed as peptide-based anti-amyloid medicine.
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Anatomy & Morphology
Ella Been, Sara Shefi, Leonid Kalichman, Jeannie F. Bailey, Michalle Soudack
JOURNAL OF ANATOMY
(2018)
Editorial Material
Anthropology
Daniel Garcia-Martinez, Manuel Campo Martin, Armando Gonzalez Martin, Oscar Cambra-Moo, Alon Barash, Markus Bastir
JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
(2018)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Asier Gomez-Olivencia, Alon Barash, Daniel Garcia-Martinez, Mikel Arlegi, Patricia Kramer, Markus Bastir, Ella Been
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2018)
Article
Neurosciences
Alon Siegler, Chaim G. Pick, Ella Been
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Jeannie F. Bailey, Sara Shefi, Michalle Soudack, Patricia A. Kramer, Ella Been
ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
(2019)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ravid Ekshtain, Ariel Malinsky-Buller, Noam Greenbaum, Netta Mitki, Mareike C. Stahlschmidt, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Nadav Nir, Naomi Porat, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Reuven Yeshurun, Ella Been, Yoel Rak, Nuha Agha, Lena Brailovsky, Masha Krakovsky, Polina Spivak, Micka Ullman, Ariel Vered, Omry Barzilai, Erella Hovers
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Anthropology
Stephanie Lois Zlolniski, Nicole Torres-Tamayo, Daniel Garcia-Martinez, Esther Blanco-Perez, Federico Mata-Escolano, Alon Barash, Shahed Nalla, Sandra Martelli, Juan A. Sanchis-Gimeno, Markus Bastir
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Ron Feldman, Shaul Schreiber, Chaim G. Pick, Ella Been
HUMAN MOVEMENT SCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel Garcia-Martinez, Markus Bastir, Chiara Villa, Francisco Garcia-Rio, Isabel Torres-Sanchez, Wolfgang Recheis, Alon Barash, Roman Hossein Khonsari, Paul O'Higgins, Marc R. Meyer, Yann Heuze
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
Article
Ecology
Markus Bastir, Daniel Garcia-Martinez, Nicole Torres-Tamayo, Carlos A. Palancar, Benoit Beyer, Alon Barash, Chiara Villa, Juan Alberto Sanchis-Gimeno, Alberto Riesco-Lopez, Shahed Nalla, Isabel Torres-Sanchez, Francisco Garcia-Rio, Ella Been, Asier Gomez-Olivencia, Martin Haeusler, Scott A. Williams, Fred Spoor
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2020)
Letter
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Alon Barash, Nomy Dickman, David Karasik
ANATOMICAL SCIENCES EDUCATION
(2021)
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Lee Keidan, Alon Barash, Ziv Lenzner, Chaim G. Pick, Ella Been
Summary: This study revealed sexual dimorphism in the attachment points of posterior cervical musculature, shedding light on the reasons for differences in cervical pain between males and females. The findings emphasize the importance of considering sexual morphological differences in surgical planning for posterior cervical surgery.
JOURNAL OF ANATOMY
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alon Barash, Miriam Belmaker, Markus Bastir, Michalle Soudack, Haley D. O'Brien, Holly Woodward, Amy Prendergast, Omry Barzilai, Ella Been
Summary: The scarcity of early Pleistocene hominin fossils in Eurasia hinders a comprehensive study of their paleobiology and paleoecology. In this study, researchers report the discovery of the earliest large-bodied hominin remains from the Levantine corridor in Israel. The analysis suggests that these remains represent a 6- to 12-year-old child with delayed ossification compared to modern humans. The findings support at least two distinct out-of-Africa dispersal events and correlate with different lithic traditions and ecological niches in early Pleistocene Eurasia.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ayelet Barash, Shlomo Preiss-Bloom, Yossy Machluf, Elena Fabbri, Dan Malkinson, Edoardo Velli, Nadia Mucci, Alon Barash, Romolo Caniglia, Tamar Dayan, Yaron Dekel
Summary: Deciphering the origins of phenotypic variations in natural animal populations is challenging. In this study, anomalous morphological traits were observed in four golden jackals in Northern Israel, resembling features of domesticated mammals. Genetic and morphological examinations confirmed that one of the individuals was a pure golden jackal. Considering the abundance of golden jackals in Israel, the rural nature of the surveyed area, the presence of anthropogenic waste, and the molecular and morphological findings, the possibility of incipient stages of domestication should be considered.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Meeting Abstract
Anthropology
Ella Been, Sara Shefi, Leonid Kalichman, Jeannie Bailey, Michalle Soudack
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2018)