Acute Lumbago and Sciatica

Lumbago, Sciatica, Etc.

Unusual cause of acute sciatica

This 32-year-old-man was admitted to the emergency department because of S1 left acute sciatica. An emergency CT-scan showed a highly probable appearance of herniated disc in L5-S1 level (A). The patient was operated without finding disc herniation, but an aspect of anterior and posterior epidural abscess compressing the dural sheath at L5-S1. Medullary MRI showed after the up and the down exte...

Lumbar Spinal Chondroma Presenting with Acute Sciatica

A 47-year-old woman visited with lumbago and severe left leg pain that had been presented for 1 week. The patient complained of severe radiating pain on left L3 sensory dermatome area and reported aggravation of leg pain at 20 degrees of hip flexion by straight leg raising test (SLRT). However, there was no motor weakness on neurological examination. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrate...

The Diagnosis and Treatment of Lumbago

Pain in the small of the back is a complaint which brings many, especially otherwise healthy adult males, to the outpatient room. The exciting cause is apparently in the majority of cases exposure to damp and cold. Three classes of cases may be distinguished?those of rheumatic myalgia, rheumatic neuritis, and renal pain associated with hyperacidity of the urine?and if the differential diagnosis...

acute and chronic maxillary sinusitis (nonodontogenic infection)

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