The doctors said it wasn't yet known if the spinal column injury had caused any paralysis.
Even nerve cells in the spinal column might be regenerated, allowing the paralyzed to walk again.
Goldenhar Syndrome is a congenital condition that produces abnormalities of the head and the bones of the spinal column.
Doctors replaced the spinal cord into the spinal column and closed up the back just as they would on a newborn.
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Another common problem for children with spina bifida is called hindbrain herniation in which part of the brain and brainstem slip into the spinal column.
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Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.
If the pregnancy is carried to term, the newborn needs an operationa few days later, so the spinal cord can be pushed back into the spinal column.
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He said there was no way of ensuring that the parts of the animals considered most dangerous, the brain and spinal column, were being removed safely.
Each rat had, in effect, grown a new nervous system which ran from the motor cortexes of its brain, down its spinal column, past the breaks in its spine and into its back legs.
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The engine hood on the Roadster has a new central spinal column with two pairs of hexagonal windows connected at the sides as if they were plates of armor.
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Doctors at Rome's Umberto I Polyclinic said a 50-year-old brigadier had been hit in the neck by a bullet that damaged his spinal column and was lodged near his shoulder.
It was noticed that his spinal column was crooked, his head seated on his shoulder blades and that one leg was shorter than the other.
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