Your thoracic spine is also surrounded by nerves that send ... the inside of your spine narrows and puts pressure on nerves. Cancer. Some forms of cancer begin in the spine, and some forms ...

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the patient's cervical and thoracic spine was obtained which ... aspiration to look for infection or tumor, and an MRI to evaluate for syringomyelia ...

17, 2024, was a 77-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer, anorexia ... alignment of the vertebrae while stabilizing her thoracic spine. Hatef performed the surgery, but according to ...

back pain, pain in her right leg, shortness of breath. Then x-rays revealed the worst. “They could see a pathological fracture,” says Ms Allerton, 45. “Cancer had eaten away at my femur.” ...

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Lung cancer commonly requires a lobectomy to remove ... It puts medicine directly into your nervous system (spinal canal) to quickly relieve pain. Your surgeon uses small cuts (minimally invasive ...

Piedmont Heart Institute recognized its annual Physician of the Year Award recipients, Hameed Aziz, M.D., Michael Johnson, M.D., and Swamy Murthy, M.D., for their efforts to deliver high-quality, ...

The thoracic spine is made up of 12 vertebrae—called T1 to T12—accompanied ... Causes include spinal trauma, infections, diseases, congenital defects, tumors, and aging-related spinal deterioration.

The thoracic spine supports the rib cage ... In rarer instances, stenosis can be due to tumor, infection, or congenital anomaly (occurring at birth). Stenosis can be congenital or developmental from a ...

Lung cancer, especially Pancoast tumors (a rare form of lung ... Scoliosis (curvature) in the thoracic spine might cause pain in between the shoulder blades if the condition is serious. Some people ...