The thoracic spine is part of your spinal column and is composed of 12 bones that are stacked one upon another. The thoracic spine is located between your cervical and lumbar spines, and it serves as ...

Thoracic disc herniation is difficult to recognize. Diagnosis is easily made when the patient has a paraparesis, but at this point the disc herniation is usually large, and the result of the disc ...

In the corresponding cross-sectional image of the lumbar MRI, the vertical distance from the tip of the L1 spinous process to the skin was measured (Figure 3), which was the SFTT(L1/2) (15). All ...