Top cervical radiculopathy Articles in Orthopedics

Patient-reported-outcomes in subjects with painful lumbar or cervical radiculopathy treated with pregabalin: evidence from medical practice in primary care settings
Rheumatology International, 10/08/2009

Saldana MT et al. – The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of pregabalin in painful cervical or lumbosacral radiculopathy treated in Primary Care settings ... in painful cervical or lumbosacral radiculopathy. Methods Observational, prospective 12–week secondary analysis Male and female above 18 years, naïve to PGB, with refractory chronic pain secondary to cervical/lumbosacral radiculopathy were enrolled SF ... disturbances, general health; level of disability observed in 3 groups, being significantly greater in PGB groups [more...]

Cervical Radicular Pain
Pain Practice, 10/07/2009

Van Zundert J et al. – Conservative treatment typically consists of medication and physical therapy. There are no studies assessing the effectiveness of different types of medication specifically in patients suffering cervical radicular pain. Cochrane reviews did not ... for either education or cervical traction. When conservative treatment fails, interventional treatment may be considered. For subacute cervical radicular pain, the available evidence on efficacy and safety supports a recommendation (2B+) of interlaminar cervical epidural corticosteroid ... cervical epidural corticosteroid administration, coupled with an increasing number of reports of serious adverse events, warrants a negative recommendation (2B-). Pulsed radiofrequency treatment adjacent to the cervical dorsal root ganglion is a recommended treatment for chronic cervical radicular ... 2B+). In selected patients with cervical radicular pain, refractory to other treatment options, spinal cord stimulation may be considered. [more...]

Deep Cervical Muscle Dysfunction and Head/Neck/Face Pain, Part 2
Practical Pain Management, 11/11/2009

Makofsky HW et al. – Although many muscles of the neck contribute to stabilization and protection of the cervical spine, the deep cervical flexors are critical for the control of intervertebral motion and control of the cervical ... the lumbar spine has been accepted for some time, but the importance of core stability in the cervical spine is relatively new. In recent years, there has been an increase in the investigation of cervical motor impairment associated with headaches. It is known that cervicogenic headache sufferers [more...]

The role of cervical cytology and colposcopy in detecting cervical glandular neoplasia
Cytopathology, 11/11/2009

Ullal A et al. – Endocervical glandular neoplasia detected on cytology is predictive of significant cervical pathology even when colposcopy is normal, which supports excisional biopsy in the primary ... squamous abnormality rate justifies the use of colposcopy to direct biopsies from the ectocervix. Cervical cytology is the only current screening method for cervical glandular abnormalities but sensitivity is poor. [more...]

Prediction of Preterm Birth: Nonsonographic Cervical Methods
Seminars in Perinatology, 10/01/2009

Ross MG et al. – A cost–effective, low–technology method of cervical length screening is necessary to implement such programs. Available data suggest that digital examination is not sufficiently sensitive and ... New modalities for nonsonographic cervical length assessment provide for a cost–effective, sensitive, and reproducible method of screening patients for short cervical length, which deserves further research in comparing its efficacy to sonographic cervical length. [more...]

Tumor-Expressed B7-H1 and B7-DC in Relation to PD-1+ T-Cell Infiltration and Survival of Patients with Cervical Carcinoma
Clinical Cancer Research, 10/19/2009

Karim R et al. – B7–H1 is expressed on only a minority of cervical cancers and does not influence the survival of patients with cervical cancer. PD–1 is expressed by a vast number of infiltrating CD8 T ... therapeutic potential in cervical cancer patients. [more...]

Effectiveness of cervical cancer screening at different ages
Women's Health, 10/30/2009

Tota J et al. – In a large case–control study with cases identified from centers across the UK and using data from the NHS database (collected between 1990 and 2008), investigators evaluated the effectiveness of cervical screening with Pap tests ... 24 years. Screening of these young women had little or no effect on the rates of invasive cervical cancer up to 30 years of age. However, screening older women (aged 35–64 years) was shown to reduce cervical cancer risk by approximately 60–80%. This study suggests that the screening age can be ... of screening at different ages as well as the absolute rate of cervical cancer in screened and unscreened women of different ages. [more...]

A survey of the knowledge and attitude of Jordanian obstetricians and gynaecologists to cervical cancer screening
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 10/29/2009

Lataifeh I et al. – Although the majority of Jordanian obstetricians and gynaecologists were able to correctly identify all the important aetiological factors associated with cervical cancer and recognised the importance of cervical cancer screening, many of them ... were not confident that the Pap smear was the most cost–effective screening test, or that human papillomavirus testing improved the sensitivity of detection of pre–invasive and invasive cervical disease. [more...]

BMD T-score discriminates trochanteric fractures from unfractured controls, whereas geometry discriminates cervical fracture cases from unfractured controls of similar BMD
Osteoporosis International, 10/02/2009

Pulkkinen P et al. – The study suggests that the risk of trochanteric fractures could be discriminated based on a BMD T-score <?2.5 criterion, whereas cervical fracture cases would remain under ... criterion. Instead, geometrical risk factors are able to discriminate cervical fracture cases even among individuals with T-score >?2.5. For cervical and trochanteric fractures combined, BMD and geometric measures independently contributed to hip fracture discrimination. Our data support changing ... fracture etiology, in which fracture type is also taken into account. Methods Postmenopausal females with non-pathologic cervical (n?=?39) or trochanteric (n?=?18) hip fracture (mean age 74.2 years) 40 age-matched controls BMD measured at femoral neck, and ... T-score criterion not able to discriminate cervical fractures 20 of these fractures (51.3%) occurred in individuals with BMD in osteoporotic range and 19 (48.7%) in individuals with T-score >?2.5 Within these non-osteoporotic cervical fracture patients (N?=?19) and non [more...]

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor expression in cervical cancer
Journal of Cancer Research & Clinical Oncology, 11/23/2009

Krockenberger M et al. – MIF has been shown to promote tumor immune escape mechanisms in other cancer entities, which makes it an interesting target for cancer therapy, given the known significance of immune mechanisms for uterine cervical cancer. The ... the protein and mRNA level, as well as its secretion by cervical cancer cells points to a critical role of the protein for the pathogenesis of uterine cervical cancer. [more...]