Spontaneous regression of a lumbar disk herniation
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Spontaneous regression of a lumbar disk herniation.
family physician to our spine clinic for assessment of left-sided leg pain of six months’ duration. His history was significant only for a spontaneous onset of lumbar back pain noted immediately after awkward bending six months prior, followed two to three days later by severe leg pain, paresthesias and ankle weakness, consistent with an L5 radiculopathy. His initial leg pain had been so intens...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.091918