Case Presentation: We reviewed a rare case of the cervical sequestrated disc herniation mimicking a spinal canal extradural abscess. The 55-year-old man presented cervical axial and radicular pain. Cervical spine MRI showed an extra-axial longitudinal mass behind C5 and C6 vertebral body association with anterior compression on cord. In T2 images of lesion, the signal intensity varied from isoi...

OBJECTIVES Spondyloarthritis is the most common pathological change in the spine. In a significant number of cases, it leads to compression of the nervous structures of the spinal canal, causing pain and neurological symptoms. Intervertebral disc pathology is a common cause of root deficits in neurological examination of all types of degenerative changes of the spine structures. Disc herniation...

We report a rare case of cervical radiculopathy associated with facet hypertrophy and disc herniation. The patient was a 38-year-old woman with sudden-onset left arm pain. As conservative therapy failed to alleviate her symptoms she was referred to us. On physical examination she manifested no neurological deficits except pain and dysesthesia in the left C7 territory. Computed tomography reveal...

Highlights The presence of preoperative Modic changes tends not to affect clinical outcomes after ACDF due degenerative pathology, including disc herniation. Preoperative are correlated with a worse picture. Abstract Background: Change (MC) is phenomenon that can be found in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) patients spinal diseases and the cervical region. effect change on outcome postoperative...

a woman presenting with severe right lower quadrant (rlq) abdominal pain is presented here. she was evaluated for all usual cause of such pain. laboratory tests and abdominal and pelvic sonography was normal. mri revealed l1-l2 disc herniation.