Traumatic Intradural Lumbar Disc Herniation without Bone Injury.
10.14245/kjs.2013.10.3.181
- Author:
Hyun Woo LEE
1
;
Young Min KWON
Author Information
1. Department of Neurosurgery, Dong-A University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea. ymkwon@dau.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Intradural disc herniation;
Subdural hematoma;
Lumbar spine
- MeSH:
Ankle;
Emergencies;
Follow-Up Studies;
Hematoma, Subdural;
Hematoma, Subdural, Spinal;
Humans;
Hypesthesia;
Laminectomy;
Middle Aged;
Rare Diseases
- From:Korean Journal of Spine
2013;10(3):181-184
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Intradural lumbar disc herniation is a rare disease. According to the reports of intradural lumbar disc herniations, most cases have developed as a chronic degenerative disc diseases. Traumatic intradural lumbar disc herniations are even rarer. A 52-year-old man visited our emergency center with numbness in his left calf and ankle after falling accident. Initial impression by radiologic findings was a spinal subdural hematoma at the L1 level. A follow up image two weeks later, however, did not demonstrate any interval change. The patient was decided to have an operation. In operative findings, a ruptured disc particle penetrating the ventral and dorsal dura was indentified after laminectomy. It was assumed to be a traumatic outcome not a degenerative change.
