Among the etiological causes of lumbar pain, osteoma is a rare benign bone tumor spine. The slowly growing arising from normal formation in periosteum. Osteomas are usually seen skull and long bones, but literature, cases osteomas affecting vertebra corpus, pedicle posterior element encountered. In this case, 28-year-old man presented with an originating left L5-S1 lateral recess causing lumbo-...

Following a historical survey of the views generally held regarding the essential lesion underlying sciatica, the writer elaborates his own view that sciatica is really an affection of the hip-joint, rheumatic or gouty in origin. The steps by which he arrives at this opinion are ingenious and reasonable. They are anatomical and clinical, and are fully considered in the book, which should be con...

Many etiologies may cause sciatica, and intra-abdominal masses usually affect the lumbosacral plexus by local invasion or distal metastases. Lumbosacral plexopathy caused by compression of intra-abdominal tumors instead of invasion is rarely seen. A 67-year-old woman had a 3-month history of progressive neurogenic claudication, lumbago and left L5 radiculopathy with foot drop. Nocturia and prog...

OBJECTIVE To describe two patients with lumbar facet synovial cysts causing sciatica and progressive neurological deficit. CLINICAL FEATURES A 52-year-old female with bilateral sciatica and a neurological deficit that progressed to a foot drop; and a 54-year-old female with worsening sciatica and progressive calf weakness were seen at a major tertiary care centre. Diagnostic imaging studies r...

Lifestyle factors such as smoking, obesity, and level of physical activity predict low back pain (LBP) and sciatica. The authors investigated whether participating in sports, smoking, and being overweight or obese at 14 years of age predicted hospitalizations due to LBP or sciatica in adulthood. In 1980, at the age of 14 years, a total of 11,399 members of the 1966 Northern Finland Birth Cohort...

OBJECTIVES The efficacy of pharmacological interventions in sciatica is limited and the use of systemic steroids is still controversial. We aimed at evaluating the efficacy and tolerance of systemic steroids in sciatica. METHODS A systematic literature search was performed in the Medline, Embase and Cochrane databases until February 2010. Randomized placebo-controlled trials evaluating the ef...

Non-discogenic sciatica can be caused by any lesion along the course of the lumbosacral nerve roots and sciatic nerve. We aim to present a rare case of refractory sciatica in an otherwise healthy 25-year-old man. He complained of left leg pain without significant back pain. Extensor hallucis longus muscle was weak on the left side with limited straight leg rising. On magnetic resonance imaging,...