KEYWORDS: Low back pain, Lumbar
disc herniation, Pain, Spine, Spontaneous regression.
[1,2,3] Intervertebral
disc herniation and degenerative lumbar spinal stenosis are the two most common causes of lumbosacral radiculopathy.
Spontaneous regression of a large symptomatic calcified thoracic
disc herniation is a rare phenomenon, with few cases reported in the literature.
Tiger Woods unfortunately fell from golf greatness when he suffered a
disc herniation in his back in 2010.
Thoracic
disc herniation is a rare disease with an incidence of 1/1,000,000 per year (1).
Endoscopic PCF foraminotomy can be used to address a lateral
disc herniation and osseous foraminal stenosis with far less muscle dissection and bony resection than open techniques (67,68) (Fig.
Weese suffered
disc herniation to four upper vertebrae and spinal cord compression, both of which can cause significant pain, and underwent a three-level spinal fusion surgery.
First, he was given a painkiller injection for low back pain with a diagnosis of lumbar
disc herniation 1.5 months ago.
All the patients involved met the inclusion criteria: diagnosed with L5-S1 intervertebral
disc herniation by preoperative magnetic resonance imaging scan, radiating limb pain, and positive straight leg raise test.
The incidence of lumbar
disc herniation (LDH) has varied between studies [1-3].
(2) Thus, a far lateral lumbar
disc herniation at L1-L2 can also present with abdominal pain and weakness causing abdominal wall paresis and bulge.
In postoperative discectomy patients with recurrent radicular symptoms, differentiating recurrent
disc herniation from peridural fibrosis is important as reoperation will only potentially benefit the former and is relatively contraindicated in the latter case.