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Cervical Spondylosis, Chronic neck pain is also sometimes associated with anxiety and depression which may also need to be treated. Cervical radiculopathy and cervical myelo...
Cervical Spondylosis, Cervical spondylosis undoubtedly contributes to this burden but may also cause: Radiculopathy due to compression, stretching or angulation of the cervical...
Neck Pain (Cervical Disc Disorders), Its most common causes are cervical disc herniation and degenerative disease. [ 1 ] The term myelopathy is used to describe any neu...
Whiplash and Cervical Spine Injury, Most fatal cervical spine injuries occur in upper cervical levels, either at the cranio-cervical junction C1, or at C2. ...
Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test), The tests are done to prevent cervical cancer by finding abnormalities that can, with relatively simple treatments, be prevented from progre...
Joint stiffness, corneal clouding, umbilical hernia, abnormal facies, hepatomegaly, joint contractures, and cervical myelopathy occur. Death tends to be in their 20s. Differential diagno...
Colposcopy and Cervical Treatments, See the separate leaflet called Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test) for more details . A cervical screening test can be ...
Cervical Cancer, If early changes seem to be progressing towards cancer, you can have treatment to stop you developing cervical cancer. See the separate leaflet called Cervical...
It has been postulated that subsequent hypermobility of these adjacent segments could lead to advanced degenerative changes causing cervical myelopathy and neurological injury. Classific...
Spinal cord compression and cervical myelopathy. Obstructive sleep apnoea . Pulmonary compromise (skeletal deformities) and predisposition to chest infections (immobility).
Cervical Cancer, The global average age at death from cervical cancer was 59 years. Around 30% of cervical cancers are detected through cervical screening in the...
Cervical Rib (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome), About 1 in 100 people are born with an extra rib called a cervical rib. About 1 in 10 people who have a cervical rib develop thorac...
Cervical Insufficiency and Suture (Incompetence and Cerclage), This may be in the second trimester or early in the third, leading to premature delivery of the baby. Cervical sutur...
Pressure on the spinal cord in the neck (cervical myelopathy). This is an uncommon but serious complication of severe, long-standing RA.
Orthopaedic complications: carpal tunnel syndrome , tendon rupture (particularly extensors of fingers or thumb), cervical myelopathy (usually after severe and long-standing RA), osteoporo...
Any symptoms or signs that suggest cervical myelopathy. Do not let concerns about the long-term durability of prosthetic joints influence decisions to offer joint replacements to younge...
Cervical Screening (Cervical Smear Test), It has been estimated that the lifetime risk in the UK of developing cervical cancer is 1 in 135. Cervical cancer accounts...
Colposcopy and Cervical Treatments, HPV vaccination against high-risk oncotypes of HPV is expected to reduce the incidence and deaths from cervical cancer still further. Ce...
MRI scan of the cervical spine can confirm the diagnosis. Dual pathologies: A cervical myelopathy and a co-existent peripheral neuropathy can present as a mixed upper-lower motor...
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome and Cervical Ribs, The relationship between thoracic outlet syndrome and cervical ribs [ 1 , 2 ] Cervical ribs are anomalous, supernumerary, extra, or addit...