Spine Pearls

1. A 79-year-old man with a several-year history of progressive dysphagia 2. A 37-year-old woman with a 3-year history of progressively worsening low back and right leg pain 3. A 64-year-old man with a 2-year history of low back pain following a fall 4. A 47-year-old man with a long history of low back pain and stiffness 5. A 42-year-old man with a 2-year history of low back pain 6. A 90-year-old woman with a 2-week history of back pain after getting out of bed 7. A 37-year-old man with a 1-month history of low back and gluteal pain after a fall 8. A 47-year-old man with a 5-week history of low back and thigh pain 9. A 44-year-old man with a 1-week history of low back pain following lifting 10. A 43-year-old woman with new-onset anterior thigh pain and paresthesias 11. A 73-year-old woman with a long history of back and hip pain exacerbated by cold, damp weather 12. A 39-year-old man with severe low back pain, posterior thigh numbness, and loss of bladder control 13. A 22-year-old woman with neck pain following a motor vehicle accident 14. A 60-year-old woman with neck pain following a motor vehicle accident 15. A 55-year-old man with low back pain and stiffness 16. A 42-year-old man with low back and anterior thigh pain 17. A 70-year-old man with low back and right leg pain 18. A 10-year-old boy with ataxic gait and weakness 19. A 43-year-old woman with neck and right arm pain 20. An 8-year-old boy with a short, webbed neck and decreased range of motion. 21. A 15-year-old boy with right-sided neck pain after wrestling at school 22. A 22-year-old man with unilateral neck and arm pain following a football injury 23. A 67-year-old woman admitted to the hospital for intractable low back pain 24. A 60-year-old man with a 2-week history of sharp low back pain 25. A 15-year-old boy with a gradual onset of painless spinal deformity 26. A 58-year-old woman with gradual onset of neck pain and myelopathy 27. A 31 -year-old man with progressively worsening low back pain and new spinal deformity 28. A 34-year-old woman with neck and right shoulder pain following a motor vehicle accident 29. A 14-year-old boy with low back and calf pain 30. A 42-year-old-man with chronic low back pain 31. A 65-year-old man with neck pain following a motor vehicle accident 32. A 40-year-old woman with a history of increasing low back and leg pain 33. A 3-year-old girl with a significant spinal deformity since birth 34. A 16-year-old boy with low back pain 35. A 42-year-old man with neck pain and headaches following a football game 36. A 71-year-old woman with intractable low back pain, leg pain, and loss of bowel control 37. A 43-year-old man with severe low back pain and radicular pain 38. A 51-year-old man injured in a motor vehicle accident 39. A 69-year-old woman with sudden-onset paraplegia following infection of a coronary artery bypass graft wound 40. A 68-year-old man with back and right leg pain 41. A 68-year-old woman admitted for sepsis 42. An 84-year-old man with back and right anterior rib pain 43. A 56-year-old Asian man with decreased cervical range of motion and progressive neck pain 44. A 35-year-old woman with low back and bilateral radicular pain 45. A 66-year-old man with neck and right arm pain and poor neck postural control 46. A 16-year-old girl with increasing back pain 1 year after fusion for scoliosis 47. A 21-year-old man with diffuse numbness in his lower extremities following a motor vehicle accident 48. A 35 year-old man with increasing low back pain and proximal lower extremity weakness 49. A 45-year-old woman with neck pain, weakness, and decreased sensation 50. A 3-year-old boy with failure to thrive, genu vaIgum, and back pain 51. A 23-year-old man with diffuse numbness in his upper and lower extremities following a motor vehicle accident 52. A 38-year-old woman with cervical pain and morning stiffness 53. A 42-year-old woman with progressive neck pain and upper extremity weakness 54. A 45-year-old woman with progressive pain and loss of neck motion 55. A 4-year-old boy with a history of multiple fractures and progressive deformity 56. A 34-year-old woman with a severe headache 1 day after spinal fusion 57. A 37-year-old woman with increasing neck pain 4 months after a motorcycle accident 58. A 25-year-old woman with headaches, ataxia, and gait disturbance 59. A 52-year-old man with a vertebral body mass 60. A 44-year-old man with neck pain and arm numbness 61. A 70-year-old woman with burning in her legs following laminectomy 62. A 12-year-old boy with diffuse weakness in his bilateral upper and lower extremities following a diving accident 63. A 42-year-old woman with right leg weakness and ataxia 64. A 52-year-old woman with increasing back and leg pain 65. A 62-year-old man with neck pain after falling off a tractor 66. A 32-year-old woman with longstanding untreated spinal deformity and back pain 67. A 42-year-old woman with left upper extremity pain, edema, and weakness 68. A 66-year-old woman with back pain and right foot numbness 69. A 48-year-old man with surgical site drainage and low-grade fever 70. A 46-year-old woman with neck pain, arm numbness, and loss of bowel control