Diagnosis and treatment of thoracic intervertebral disc protrusions
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Diagnosis and treatment of thoracic intervertebral disc protrusions.
A series of 14 patients with a protruded thoracic intervertebral disc is reported. We believe that the true incidence may be as high as one patient per million population per annum. Trauma, sometimes mild, seems to have played a significant role in this series. This fact coupled with pronounced numbness and disagreeable paraesthesiae should suggest the diagnosis with thoracic spinal lesions. Ar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
سال: 1971
ISSN: 0022-3050
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.34.1.68