Synovial cyst at the intervertebral foramina causing lumbar radiculopathy
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Haemorrhagic lumbar synovial cyst. A cause of acute radiculopathy.
A total of 254 cases of synovial cysts of the spine have been reported in the English literature, but only eight have been associated with haemorrhage. We describe a 55-year-old man with acute radiculopathy resulting from haemorrhage involving a synovial cyst at a lumbar facet joint. Traumatic factors could have caused bleeding around or into the synovial cyst. Treatment by resection of the cys...
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عنوان ژورنال: Spinal Cord
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1362-4393,1476-5624
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101170