Transitional lumbosacral segment with unilateral transverse process anomaly (Castellvi type 2A) resulting in extraforaminal impingement of the spinal nerve A pathoanatomical study of four specimens and report of two clinical cases

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 143-150

  Weber, Jochen ^a   Ernestus, Ralf Ingo ^b  

^a Department of Neurosurgery   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extraforaminal impingement; Transitional lumbosacral segment; Transverse process anomaly

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSESTHESIA; EXTRAFORAMINAL SPINAL NERVE IMPINGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPESTHESIA; INTERVERTEBRAL ARTICULATION; LEG PAIN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE DECOMPRESSION; NERVE ROOT BLOCK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPHYTE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADICULOPATHY; REVIEW; SCOLIOSIS; SPINAL CORD TRANSVERSE LESION; SPINAL NERVE; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; SPONDYLOSIS; VERTEBRAL CANAL STENOSIS;

DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; SCIATICA; SPINAL NERVES; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79958206920     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-010-0300-7     Document Type: Review

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