Background and Aim: Although operation is the most appropriate treatment for Cauda Equina Syndrome, the effectiveness of operation on clinical symptoms is still under discussion. This study aimed to determine the prognosis of Cauda Equina Syndrome in patients with lumbar disk surgery in Al-Zahra Hospital of Isfahan City, Iran, from 2013 to 2015. Methods and Materials/ Patients: In This prospec...

Twenty patients were enrolled in a prospective study to evaluate MR imaging in the differentiation of epidural scar and herniated disk material. Fourteen patients had surgical verification of imaging findings. In 12 (86%) of these patients, the MR interpretations fully agreed with the observations at surgery. Careful integration of the findings on sagittal and axial T1-weighted images with more...

The authors describe a case of a 26-year-old female military veteran who presented with low back pain that she attributed to a recent foot injury. The patient reported a history of lumbar pain while in the military that had been treated successfully with high-velocity, low-amplitude osteopathic manipulative treatment. The patient's current pain was improved with osteopathic manipulative treatme...

BACKGROUND The authors assumed that advanced lumbar disk disease contributes to disorders of body balance and asymmetry of foot pressure force on the ground. Surgery improves biomechanical relations in the lumbar spine, thus decreasing the disturbance of postural balance and foot load. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was carried out among 40 patients treated in Military Clinical Hospital in Wr...

The radiologic manifestations of lumbar disk herniation as seen on myelography, postmyelography CT, and, more recently , surface-coil MR have been well described (1-3). CT and MR findings of far lateral , extraforaminal disk herniation also have been reported (4]. Migratory fragments typically settle anterior and/or lateral to the thecal sac (5]. We report a case in which the sequestered migrat...

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...

Plain computed tomography (CT) of the lumbosacral spine may be a reliable method for diagnosing herniated disk when abundant epidural fat is present. When epidural fat is not sufficient, CT after the administration of nonionic contrast medium (170 mg I/ml) and/or regular metrizamide myelography have been used. Ten patients were studied by CT enhanced with air injected as a negative contrast age...