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Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients

Three Chinese patients suffered from severe lumbar spinal stenosis with debilitating symptoms due to a rare condition of ligamentum flavum cysts in the midline of the lumbar spine. This disease is distinct from synovial cyst of the facet joints or ganglion cysts, both intraoperatively and histopatho...

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Autores principales: Chan, Alexander Pak-Hin, Wong, Tsz Cheung, Sieh, Koon-Man, Leung, Simon Siu-Man, Cheung, Kai-Yin, Fung, Kwai-Yau
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21047439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-5-81
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author Chan, Alexander Pak-Hin
Wong, Tsz Cheung
Sieh, Koon-Man
Leung, Simon Siu-Man
Cheung, Kai-Yin
Fung, Kwai-Yau
author_facet Chan, Alexander Pak-Hin
Wong, Tsz Cheung
Sieh, Koon-Man
Leung, Simon Siu-Man
Cheung, Kai-Yin
Fung, Kwai-Yau
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description Three Chinese patients suffered from severe lumbar spinal stenosis with debilitating symptoms due to a rare condition of ligamentum flavum cysts in the midline of the lumbar spine. This disease is distinct from synovial cyst of the facet joints or ganglion cysts, both intraoperatively and histopathologically. Magnetic Resonance imaging features of the ligamentum flavum cyst are also demonstrated. We share our surgical experiences of identification of the ligamentum flavum cysts, decompression and excision for two of the patients with demonstrably good recovery. This disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an extradural instraspinal mass in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis.
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spelling pubmed-29880142010-11-19 Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients Chan, Alexander Pak-Hin Wong, Tsz Cheung Sieh, Koon-Man Leung, Simon Siu-Man Cheung, Kai-Yin Fung, Kwai-Yau J Orthop Surg Res Case Report Three Chinese patients suffered from severe lumbar spinal stenosis with debilitating symptoms due to a rare condition of ligamentum flavum cysts in the midline of the lumbar spine. This disease is distinct from synovial cyst of the facet joints or ganglion cysts, both intraoperatively and histopathologically. Magnetic Resonance imaging features of the ligamentum flavum cyst are also demonstrated. We share our surgical experiences of identification of the ligamentum flavum cysts, decompression and excision for two of the patients with demonstrably good recovery. This disease should be considered in the differential diagnosis of an extradural instraspinal mass in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. BioMed Central 2010-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2988014/ /pubmed/21047439 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-5-81 Text en Copyright ©2010 Chan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Chan, Alexander Pak-Hin
Wong, Tsz Cheung
Sieh, Koon-Man
Leung, Simon Siu-Man
Cheung, Kai-Yin
Fung, Kwai-Yau
Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients
title Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients
title_full Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients
title_fullStr Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients
title_full_unstemmed Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients
title_short Rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: Experience with 3 Chinese patients
title_sort rare ligamentum flavum cyst causing incapacitating lumbar spinal stenosis: experience with 3 chinese patients
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2988014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21047439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-5-81
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