Lower back pain with sciatic disorder following L5 dermatome caused by herpes zoster infection

We report the case of a 62-year-old patient with lower back pain radiating into the right leg accompanied by numbness. The pain had an acute onset and was resistant to conservative pain treatment. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the lumbar spine showed no degenerative discovertebral lesio...

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Main Authors: Roslind Karolina Hackenberg, Arnd von den Driesch, Dietmar Pierre König
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Medical Publishing 2015-09-01
Series:Orthopedic Reviews
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Online Access:http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/or/article/view/6046