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...

Spinal cord ischemia is an uncommon complication of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). We report the case of a 59-year-old man admitted for an acute ischemic Cauda equina syndrome secondary to a spinal cord embolization from an unknown partially thrombosed aortic aneurysm. The patient being at risk of further embolization, we achieved an emergency EVAR. The vascular post-operative course was u...

lri this country comparatively few cases of lesion of the ^auda equina have been observed and subjected to treatment ^ ?Peration, it seems desirable to place this case upon record, ?ugh perhaps it does not distinctly add anything to our a*her imperfect knowledge of the distribution of the lumbar sacral nerve-roots. The symptoms and diagnosis of ^lQng of the cauda equina have been admirably disc...

STUDY DESIGN  Case report.We present the case of a 55-year-old woman with cauda equina syndrome, and hypokalaemic paralysis secondary to thiazide diuretic abuse.