Posterior epidural migration of sequestered lumbar disc fragment causing cauda equina syndrome
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Posterior epidural migration of sequestered lumbar disc fragment causing cauda equina syndrome.
Posterior epidural migration of free disc fragments is rare, and posterior migration of the free fragments causing cauda equina syndrome is exceptionally rare. This report describes a 53-year-old man with disc fragment extrusion at the levels of L3-4 and a 54-year-old man with disc fragment extrusion at L5-S1 intervertebral space. The patients responded well to the operative therapy with comple...
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عنوان ژورنال: Coluna/Columna
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1808-1851
DOI: 10.1590/s1808-18512013000100018