A Large Symptomatic Schmor's Node: A Case Report.
- Author:
Chong Suh LEE
;
Sung Soo CHUNG
;
Ki Sun SUNG
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Schmorls node;
Low back pain
- MeSH:
Basketball;
Female;
Humans;
Intervertebral Disc;
Low Back Pain;
Magnetic Resonance Imaging;
Sclerosis;
Young Adult
- From:The Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
1997;32(7):1803-1807
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
A 20-year-old woman presented with 2-year history of low back pain. She is a basketball player. There was neither major traumatic episode nor history of febrile illness, On plain roentgenograms, sclerosis and slightly decreased height of L5 vertebral body was detected while the intervertebral disc spaces were intact. We found that L5 body was destructed by materials showing high signal intensity on T2 weighted images and connecting the two adjacent disc spaces on MRI. The initial diagonsis included bone tumors. Vertebrectomy was done and the intravertebral material was revealed as degenerated nucleus pulposus.
