Radical Surgery of Only the Anterior Elements of the Spine at the Posterior Element Fusion Level due to Metastatic Thyroid Cancer by Ryuto Tsuchiya, Kazuki Fujimoto, Kazuhide Inage, Sumihisa Orita, Yasuhiro Shiga, Hiroto Kamoda, Kazuyo Yamauchi, Miyako Suzuki, Jun Sato, Koki Abe, Hirohito Kanamoto, Masahiro Inoue, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Masaki Norimoto, Tomotaka Umimura, Masao Koda, Takeo Furuya, Junichi Nakamura, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Seiji Ohtori

“…A 67-year-old woman who had numbness and muscle weakness in the lower limbs caused by metastatic spinal tumor at the posterior element fusion level of L1–L3 vertebrae was treated with radical surgery of only the anterior element to gain stability. …”
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Correlation Analysis between Rehabilitation Mechanism of Top Tank Walking and Spinal Stability Training Principle by Hua LI, Xinmiao Yao, Guoqing Zhou

“…The study found that top tank walking can mobilize and maintain the relevant muscle groups in the spine posture effectively, affect the deep muscles of the cervical vertebrae, the chest and lumbar muscles, and stimulate the activity of the local stable muscles of the spine; the spine rehabilitation training of using top tank or top tank walking, should based on the fatigue of the patient's muscle contraction, step by step, while paying attention to the principle of specificity and individuality. …”
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Ventral Stabilization of a T2-T3 Vertebral Luxation via Median Sternotomy in a Dog by Sarah Klatzkow, Matthew D. Johnson, Michele James, Sheila Carrera-Justiz

“…Paired String-of-Pearls plates were placed on the ventral aspect of vertebrae. Eight weeks postoperatively, the dog was ambulatory with moderate pelvic limb paraparesis. …”
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Primary Synovial Sarcoma of the Scrotum by Nourah Al-Oudah, Sara Alanazi, Sarah Saad Alotaibi, Nayef Alzahrani

“…A year later, the patient developed liver, vertebrae, and lung metastasis, which was treated with systemic chemotherapy. …”
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Maxillofacial Changes in Melnick-Needles Syndrome by Leilane Larissa Albuquerque do Nascimento, Monica da Consolação Canuto Salgueiro, Mariana Quintela, Victor Perez Teixeira, Ana Carolina Costa Mota, Camila Haddad Leal de Godoy, Sandra Kalil Bussadori

“…This paper describes the case of a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with Melnick-Needles Syndrome presenting with different forms of skeletal dysplasia, such as cranial hyperostosis, short upper limbs, bowed long bones, metaphyseal thickening, genu valgum (knock-knee), shortened distal phalanges, narrow pelvis and shoulders, rib tapering and irregularities, elongation of the vertebrae, kyphoscoliosis, micrognathia, hypoplastic coronoid processes of the mandible, left stylohyoid ligament suggesting ossification, and dental development anomalies. …”
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Late Prevertebral and Spinal Abscess following Chemoradiation for Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Jawad Hindy, Ilan Shelef, Yuval Slovik, Ben-Zion Joshua

“…CT scan showed prevertebral and intraspinal air descending from C4 to D3 vertebras. Epidural and prevertebral abscesses were confirmed by neck exploration. …”
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The Emerging Role of Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange (THRIVE) Technique and C-MAC Videolaryngoscope for Difficult Airway Management in a Patient with... by Anjana Kashyap, Alia Vidyadhara, Vidyadhara Srinivasa, Madhava P. Kanhangad

“…Klippel–Feil syndrome (KFS) is a rare autosomal dominant congenital anomaly characterized by failure in fusion of the cervical vertebrae. There have been no case reports describing the use of a combination of transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilatory exchange (THRIVE) and C-MAC videolaryngoscope in the airway management of an adult patient with KFS. …”
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An Early Presentation of Tricuspid Valve Rupture in a Trauma Patient With Congenital Heart Disease by Justus Boever, Rishi Batra, Hason Khan, Zachary M. Bauman

“…The tricuspid valve is the most frequently affected heart valve following blunt chest trauma due to its anterior anatomical position between the sternum and the vertebrae. The diagnosis of tricuspid regurgitation is often delayed in the traumatic setting due to the subtlety of clinical manifestations. …”
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Summary of Proprioceptive Training on Motor Dysfunction Rehabilitation by Renxin JI, Wenhua CHEN, Qi QI

“…Findings showed that motor dysfunction was the most common symptom in stroke, sports injury, musculoskeletal disease, lumbar vertebrae degeneration, dystonia, etc.. A large number of reports advocated that the above diseases all had the loss of proprioception. …”
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Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography by Lene L. Delsett, Adam S. Smith, Stephen Ingrams, Simon Schneider

“…From a taxonomic point of view, the presence of vertebrae from several regions and four propodials improve our understanding of the morphology of the genus. …”
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Family Rehabilitation Training by Jinyun Rehabilitation Platform in Patients with Ankylosing Spondylitis Treated by Chinese Medicine Fumigation Combined with Muscle Energy Technolo... by Longbin SHEN, Hui OUYANG, Dongling WU, Wenhao XIE

“…After treatment, the VAS, BASDAI, BASFI, ESR and CRP in the experimental group were lower than those of the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt; 0.05), and the cervical vertebrae ROM, lumbar vertebrae ROM, muscle strength and Schober score were higher than those of the control group (<italic>P</italic>&lt; 0.05).Conclusion:Chinese medicine fumigation combined with muscle energy technology is effective for treating low back pain of AS patients. …”
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The effects of the varying filling degrees of the stomach on the topographies of the kidneys in cat by Emrullah Eken, Memduh Gezici

“…This investigation is different from that of Deniz and Klesty in that transversal cross sectiones of the abdominal cavity were done alter the materials were deep Ireezed; the topographies of the left and right kidneys, and their relations with the other organs were determined; following dissection the photographes of mentioned organs were taken: it was detected that the kidneys were retroperitoneally situated, yellow-red and bean shaped: generally, the right kidney was in front of the left one, but it was contrary to this stuation in one material, the kidneys were displaced aboul one vertebrae lenght in caudal, cranial and dorsal direction depending on the filling degrees ol the stomach, the left kindney was adjacent to the descendent colon and left pancreatic lobe ventromedially, the spleen cramally. the psoas muscles dorsally, the left ovary (in female) caudally, the right kidney was ad|acent to the caudal process and rigt lateral hepatic lobe craniatly, the psoas muscles dorsally, the beginning portion of descendent part of duodenum ventromedial^ and the right ovary caudally.…”
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Skeletal Cryptococcosis: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Lori Wood, Lil Miedzinski

“…Any bony site can be involved, most commonly the vertebrae, with the presentation often being a soft tissue swelling and pain in the affected area. …”
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Live Visualization of Calcified Bones in Zebrafish and Medaka Larvae and Juveniles Using Calcein and Alizarin Red S by Rina Koita, Sae Oikawa, Taisei Tani, Masaru Matsuda, Akinori Kawamura

“…This method, applicable to live specimens during the ossification of bones, avoids apparent alterations in skeletal morphology and allows for the use of different fluorescent dyes in conjunction with transgenic labeling, thus enhancing the analysis of developmental processes in calcifying bones, such as vertebrae and fin rays.…”
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Tuberculous Spondylitis following Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin for Bladder Cancer by Masashi Miyazaki, Toyomi Yoshiiwa, Toshinobu Ishihara, Masanori Kawano, Hiroshi Tsumura

“…Magnetic resonance imaging of the thoracic spine showed destruction of the T5 and T6 vertebrae and an epidural soft tissue mass with anterior dural sac compression. …”
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Automatic Calculation of Cardiometric Coefficients on Chest X-Ray Images by Alexey Kornaev, Dmitry Lvov, Ilya Pershin, Semen Kiselev, Danil Afonchikov, Iskander Bariev, Bulat Ibragimov

“…Additionally, we have replaced the central points of the indices with landmarks based on the vertebrae, improving the accuracy. The use of AI led to improved accuracy of correct predictions, increasing it from 85.94% to 87.34% for the MOORE coefficient and from 87.55% to 90.67% for the LUPI coefficient.…”
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Les vestiges fauniques de la rue Lecointre à Reims/Durocortorum : une carrière utilisée comme dépotoir by Frédéric Poupon

“…The first corresponds to a butchery activity illustrated by a surplus of vertebrae and foot bones (primal cut), followed by scapulae and ribs (secondary cut). …”
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Multicentric Castleman's Disease in a Hepatitis C-Positive Intravenous Drug User: A Case Report by D. Y. Talukder, S. N. Delpachitra

“…The patient was reactive to Epstein Barr virus and cytomegalovirus; however, HIV and HHV-8 viral testing was negative. Osteomyelitis of vertebrae T8–T11 and septic arthritis of the knee were found on investigation. …”
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Optimizing Bone Health in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy by Jason L. Buckner, Sasigarn A. Bowden, John D. Mahan

“…However, the osteoporotic impact of chronic corticosteroid use further impairs the underlying reduced bone mass seen in DMD, leading to increased fragility fractures of long bones and vertebrae. These serious sequelae adversely affect quality of life and can impact survival. …”
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Prevalence of bone destruction in patients with TALAROMYCES MARNEFFEI infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Junhong Zhou, Deshuang Xi, Yilin Teng, Shaohui Zong, Gaofeng Zeng

“…The skull, ribs, and lumbar vertebrae were commonly affected. Conclusion: Bone destruction is a significant complication in TM infection, particularly in HIV-negative patients. …”
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