Diagnostic ideas and programs of lumbar intervetebral disc herniation.
- Author:
Shi-Rong HUANG
1
;
Yin-Yu SHI
;
Hong-Sheng ZHAN
Author Information
1. Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Affiliated to Shanghai Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai 200021, China. huangshi-rong3268@sina.com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Animals;
Diagnostic Imaging;
instrumentation;
methods;
Humans;
Intervertebral Disc Displacement;
diagnosis;
diagnostic imaging;
Lumbar Vertebrae;
diagnostic imaging;
innervation;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- From:
China Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
2012;25(2):147-151
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Lumbar intervertebral disc herniation (LIDH) is one of the most common causes of lumbocrural pain with its uncertain causes, varied clinical manifestations and featuring on each individual case. Effective individualized therapy scheme depends on the correct and timely diagnosis of this disease. Many evidence indicated that the nervous symptoms and signs have higher specificity and sensitivity, has great significance to the diagnosis of LIDH but usually has polytropy among different patients or different period and conditioning of the same patient to some degree. This article systematically reviewed and analyzed the diagnostic value of specific symptoms and signs, selected physical and photographical examination methods of LIDH, and proposed that LIDH can be accurately and timely evaluated by using these diagnostic factors and ways comprehensively and systematically, this will be the helpful ideas and program to the diagnosis of this disease.
