BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Perineural cysts may induce difficult to control neuropathic pain. Anticonvulsivants are used to treat such pain. This report aimed at presenting a case of total pain remission with gabapentin after failure of all other therapeutic alternatives used. CASE REPORT Female, diabetic patient, 67 years old, complaining of lumbosacral pain for two months, with the following...

A 39-year-old male patient known to have neurofibromatosis-1, presented with sciatica and low back pain. At the age of 27, an MRI of the spine revealed widening of the lumbar canal due to posterior scalloping of the last 4 lumbar vertebrae. Repeat MRI and simple lateral lumbosacral plain film at the age of 39, revealed significant progression of the lumbosacral lesion. In view of the progressio...

BACKGROUND Low back pain syndromes are one of the most frequent causes of movement limitation in populations of highly industrialized countries. They are listed as the main cause of inability to work among people of working age. Chronic pain and the associated limitation of movement underlie the quest for effective therapies. The use of ultrasound, LLLT, vacuum therapy with Ultra Reiz current i...

It is well recognized that braces in current use cannot produce complete immobilization of the spine, especially in the lumbosacral region. In fact, it has been shown that motion at the lumbosacral joint may be increased during trunk flexion when a long spinal brace is worn, since there is compensation for decreased motion of the thoracolumbar region. 1 Clinically, however, despite the obvious ...

BACKGROUND Coronal imbalance of the pelvis is recognized to lead to the development of degenerative lumbar scoliosis. We hypothesized that an abrupt change of pelvic obliquity may show a reproducible trend of coronal compensation in the lumbosacral spine. The aim of the study was to classify the change of coronal alignment of spine after THA. METHODS This is a retrospective study based on the...

A faun tail is abnormal lumbar hypertrichosis that is characterized by a wide, often triangular or lozenge-shaped patch of coarse hair, and this hair is usually several inches long. Faun tail is a rare entity. A 36-year-old male presented with a triangular shaped hair tuft with terminal hair on the lumbosacral area, and he'd had this unusual hair since birth. There were no neurologic signs or a...

Study Design Retrospective cohort study. Objective Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae (LSTV) are a common congenital anomaly, and they can be accurately identified on anteroposterior (AP) radiographs of the lumbosacral spine. This study attempts to determine the prevalence of this congenital anomaly and to increase awareness among all clinicians to reduce the risk of surgical and procedural err...

BACKGROUND Facet arthroplasty is a motion restoring procedure. It is normally suggested as an alternative to rigid fixation after destabilizing decompression procedures in the posterior lumbar spine. While previous studies have reported successful results in reproducing normal spine kinematics after facet replacement at L4-5 and L3-4, there are no data on the viability of facet replacement at t...

BACKGROUND The primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) of the spine are rare and usually are intramedullary and being reported in children. We herein report an epidural PNET of lumbosacral area presenting with cauda equine syndrome in an adult. CASE REPORT A 38-year-old woman presented to our emergency room with acute onset lower extremity weakness and urinary incontinency. Emergency MRI reve...