Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman

Despite low back pain being common in pregnancy, cauda equina syndrome is rare. Misdiagnosis and delay in treatment may cause neurological sequelae including urinary and fecal incontinence, sexual dysfunction in patients. A case of cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman at 25-week gestation is pr...

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Autor principal: Hakan, Tayfun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22865981
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.98243
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description Despite low back pain being common in pregnancy, cauda equina syndrome is rare. Misdiagnosis and delay in treatment may cause neurological sequelae including urinary and fecal incontinence, sexual dysfunction in patients. A case of cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman at 25-week gestation is presented here. The patient underwent an emergency, standard lumbar microdiscectomy under general anesthesia on prone position. Neither the patient nor the baby had any complication related to surgery.
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spelling pubmed-34100002012-08-03 Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman Hakan, Tayfun J Neurosci Rural Pract Case Report Despite low back pain being common in pregnancy, cauda equina syndrome is rare. Misdiagnosis and delay in treatment may cause neurological sequelae including urinary and fecal incontinence, sexual dysfunction in patients. A case of cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman at 25-week gestation is presented here. The patient underwent an emergency, standard lumbar microdiscectomy under general anesthesia on prone position. Neither the patient nor the baby had any complication related to surgery. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3410000/ /pubmed/22865981 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0976-3147.98243 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman
title_fullStr Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman
title_full_unstemmed Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman
title_short Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman
title_sort lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3410000/
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