Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four Cases
Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is the most common cause of sciatica and only in about 10% of the affected patients, surgical intervention is necessary. The side of the patient (the side of most prominent clinical complaints) is usually consistent with the side of imaging (the side with most prominent...
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doaj-6641e424f8704d0485e7f818de2ffbc72020-11-25T03:42:50ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesActa Medica Iranica0044-60251735-96942016-02-015414955Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four CasesFarzad Omidi-Kashani0Mohammad Faraji Rad1Orthopedic Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran.Orthopedic Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is the most common cause of sciatica and only in about 10% of the affected patients, surgical intervention is necessary. The side of the patient (the side of most prominent clinical complaints) is usually consistent with the side of imaging (the side with most prominent disc herniation on imaging scans). In this case series, we presented our experience in four cases with huge intracanal LDH that a mismatch between the patient’s side and the imaging’s side was present. In these cases, for deciding to do the operation, the physicians need to rely more on clinical findings, but for deciding the side of discectomy, imaging characteristic (imaging side) may be a more important criterion. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/5394Lumbar disc herniationSurgeryDiscectomySciatica |
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Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four Cases |
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Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four Cases |
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Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four Cases |
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Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four Cases |
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Huge Intracanal lumbar Disc Herniation: a Review of Four Cases |
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huge intracanal lumbar disc herniation: a review of four cases |
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences |
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Acta Medica Iranica |
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0044-6025 1735-9694 |
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2016-02-01 |
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Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is the most common cause of sciatica and only in about 10% of the affected patients, surgical intervention is necessary. The side of the patient (the side of most prominent clinical complaints) is usually consistent with the side of imaging (the side with most prominent disc herniation on imaging scans). In this case series, we presented our experience in four cases with huge intracanal LDH that a mismatch between the patient’s side and the imaging’s side was present. In these cases, for deciding to do the operation, the physicians need to rely more on clinical findings, but for deciding the side of discectomy, imaging characteristic (imaging side) may be a more important criterion.
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Lumbar disc herniation Surgery Discectomy Sciatica |
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