… MRI scans were obtained with a Siemens 1.5-T Magnetom MR imager or a Toshiba 0.5-T
MR imager. All patients were studied before and after surgery with T1-weighted spin-echo …

Low back pain (LBP) is encountered frequently in clinical practice. The superior and the
middle cluneal nerves (SCN and MCN) are cutaneous nerves that are purely sensory. They …

… 15-T magnetic resonance imager or a GE l.5-T Signa magnetic resonance imager. using
the surface coil. All patients were studied with T1-weighted spin-echo images (SE. …

… After April 1985, 14 patients were studied presurgically and postsurgically by MRI, using a
Toshiba 0.15-T MR imager, a GE 1.5-T Signa MR imager, or a Siemens 1.5-T Magnetom MR …

BACKGROUND: To assess the effect of 3 different surgical approaches on paraspinal
muscle atrophy in patients undergoing lumbar back surgery, we compared their pre- and …

… Reprint requests: Toyohiko Isu. MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Kushiro Rousai Hospital.
… Suzuki T: Spinal cord herniation into a congenital extradural arachnoid cyst causing Brown-…

We retrospectively evaluated the pre- and postoperative course of 34 tethered cord patients
with occult spinal dysraphism in an attempt to infer the natural history of this disorder and to …

Object. The goal of this study was to investigate outcomes in patients with vestibular
schwannoma (VS) who were treated with fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT). Methods. …

Microscopic distributions of growth rates on GaAs(001) layers next to (111)A and (111)B
surfaces were measured in real time during molecular beam epitaxy growth by scanning …

Objective. Sacroiliac joint (SIJ) pain originating from the posterior ligament manifests in not
only the buttocks but also the groin and lower extremities and thus may be difficult to discern …