DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Diffuse protruding disc
Failed back syndrome
Failed back syndrome or post-laminectomy syndrome is a condition characterized by persistent pain following back surgeries. Failed back syndrome (FBS), also called "failed back surgery syndrome" (FBSS), refers to chronic back and/or leg pain that occurs after back (spinal) surgery. It is characterized as a chronic pain syndrome. Multiple factors can contribute to the onset or development of FBS. Contributing factors include but are not limited to residual or recurrent disc herniation, persistent post-operative pressure on a spinal nerve, altered joint mobility, joint hypermobility with instability, scar tissue, depression, anxiety, sleeplessness and spinal muscular deconditioning...
Diffuse protruding disc - List of case studies
- Spinal pathology
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indentation of anterior spinal cord C3-4 : Slight diffuse protrusion of disc causing constriction of anterior dural sac ... : Within normal limits. L1-L2 : Minimally diffuse protruding disc , no evidence of pressure on the nerve roots. Schmorl’s ...
- Cervical myelopathy
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marked degenerative differences with spinal narrowing and protruding discs causing pressure on the spinal cord. Spinal cord ... found at C5-C6 level. Additional imaging found C3-4 disc herniation with stenosis and C5-6 stenosis with myelomalacia, and a ... sac and light pressure on the cord. C5-C6 – Diffuse bulge of the disc , causing pressure on dural sac and pressure on ...
- Spinal pathology – additional opinion
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indentation of anterior spinal cord C3-4 : Slight diffuse protrusion of disc causing constriction of anterior dural sac ... : Within normal limits. L1-L2 : Minimally diffuse protruding disc , no evidence of pressure on the nerve roots. Schmorl’s ...
- Post Traumatic Double Pelvic Fracture
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spaces reduction in the upper dorsal segment, diffuse at lumbar level with disc calcifications. Marked Interapophyseal ... the dural sac. The Intervertebral Disc L1-L2 is totally protruding in particular in left paramedian and median area. The Intervertebral ...