Unsuccessful back surgery is associated with significant healthcare costs and risks to patients. This review aims to examine the diagnostic accuracy of selective nerve root blocks (SNRBs) to identify ...

Herniated discs and spinal stenosis are the most common causes of a pinched nerve in the lower back. Other conditions like ...

A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...

Neurological examination was normal. Initial MRI spine showed enhanced swollen distal cord with abnormally thickened enhancing spinal nerve roots in this area, and prominent veins at the level of ...

We discuss the differential diagnosis between HMSN III and CIDP in this patient with a fluctuating but insidiously progressive 26 year history, in whom MRI demonstrated marked enlargement of multiple ...

that travel along the spinal column. The narrowing can be central stenosis (referring to the main channel) or it can be foraminal stenosis (referring to the “exit ramp” for each individual nerve root) ...

Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a painful disorder caused by pressure on the nerve roots of the lower back. The compression of these nerve roots limits normal function of the pelvic organs and lower ...

Leg pain was rated as extremely bothersome by 73%, numbness and tingling by 38%, weakness by 24% and back pain by 17%. In the subsample (n=52), deep-lying pain and non-painful abnormal sensations were ...

The authors back up their position by very rare neurological disorders after total resection of the neurinoma and consider it appropriate to transect the affected nerve completely (17). In the case ...

L4-6), or sciatic nerve transection (SNT). Post-operative survival times varied between 1.5 h and 3 weeks. In additional experiments an avulsed ventral root was directly replanted to the spinal cord.

These lesions were detected readily by MRI and the patient underwent successful surgical resection of the largest tumours compressing bilateral C2 nerve roots. To our knowledge, this is the first ...