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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
C5-C6 disc protrusion
Spinal disc herniation
A spinal disc herniation (prolapsus disci intervertebralis), informally and misleadingly called a "slipped disc", is a medical condition affecting the spine, in which a tear in the outer, fibrous ring of an intervertebral disc (discus intervertebralis) allows the soft, central portion to bulge out. Tears are almost always postero-lateral in nature owing to the presence of the posterior longitudinal ligament in the spinal canal. This tear in the disc ring may result in the release of inflammatory chemical mediators which may directly cause severe pain, even in the absence of nerve root compression...
C5-C6 disc protrusion - List of case studies
- Spinal column pathology - additional opinion
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and L2-L3 were barely represented, L4-L5 discopathy , disc L5-S1 appears well hydrated, somatic posterior osteophytosis at all ... passage D9-D10; signs in the dura also at C3-C4, C4-C5 and C5-C6; multiple osteodiscal protrusions in the lumbar region. - X-ray ...
- List of Diseases and Conditions
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Adhesive capsulitis Adiadochokinesis Adjacent disc disease Adnexitis Adult Scoliosis Adult onset dystonia ... phase Arthrosis Arthrotic disc compression (C5-C6) Arthrotic manifestations Articular cartilage problem ...
- Cervical pain and limitation of movement after 2 cervical spine surgeries
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pressure on the cervical spinal cord , caused by a disc and an osteophyte that were developed in the area, and caused damage ... anterior pressure on the spinal cord, especially at C5-C6 , by the disc and an anterior osteophyte that caused pressure and damage ...
- Spinal column pathology
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at L5 and the lumbar MRI showed left mediolateral D10-D11 disc protrusion causing medullary distress. There was also left L4-L5 disc ... passage D9-D10; signs in the dura also at C3-C4, C4-C5 and C5-C6; multiple osteodiscal protrusions in the lumbar region. ...
- 1st and 2nd Motor Neuron Disease of ALS-type
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C5. The dimensions of the spinal canal are regular. In C5-C6 and C6-C7 modest large scale disc protrusion with dural impression”. Further tests performed ...
- Left cervicobrachialgia following cervical discectomy
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43-year-old male suffered of cervical disc herniation, and therefore C5-6 and C6-7 discectomy and fusion were done. ... MRI was performed in August 2006 with a diagnosis of a C5-C6 disc protrusion; C6-C7 bulging disc hernia located in the right ...