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Medical Case Studies
Slipped disc
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...
Slipped disc - List of case studies
- 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 ... D10-D11 osteodiscal protrusion causing medullary distress, slipped (herniated) disc , probably left mediolateral L4-L5. ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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a lumbosacral NMR in January 2005 with evidence of L5-S1 disc herniation, more evident towards the right side. Since then she has ... 2007 the patient has noticed that sometimes things slipped out of her right hand; the motor dysfunction of the her left lower limb ...
- 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 ... D10-D11 osteodiscal protrusion causing medullary distress, slipped (herniated) disc , probably left mediolateral L4-L5. During a ...
- Herniated Disc L4-L5
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Slipped Disc short_summary: ...
- Spinal Channel Stenosis
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reduced lumbar lordosis, narrowing of the L5-S1 disc space and transitional L5 vertebrae". Postural physio-kinetic ... L4-L5 level and L5-S1 stenosis due to what appear to be slipped ring apophysis. There is mild facet arthropathy that in such ...