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 ...

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 ...

The vertebral column comprises individual vertebral bones with spinal discs between each bone. Your spinal cord goes through a canal in your spine. Between each pair of vertebrae are a right and a ...

Only rarely, however, does such a hemangioma cause spinal-cord compression. Myelocompression by hemangioma of the cervical vertebral bodies is particularly unusual. Since early recognition and ...

Cervical myelopathy is a condition that happens when the spinal cord in the neck is compressed or squeezed ... in which the intervertebral disc is removed and the remaining vertebral bones are fused ...

When a terrestrial vertebrate stands, its body hangs from the vertebral column which supports the weight ... which lies just below the spinal cord. Neural arch encloses spinal cord. Neural spine may ...

InVivo Therapeutics is developing a resorbable biomaterial scaffold, the investigational Neuro-Spinal Scaffold ... type injury that displaces the vertebral column, causing mechanical injury ...