Impending Discectomy in a Patient with Zoster Induced Sciatica; An Instructive Case Report

Herpes zoster is a rare cause of non-discogenic sciatica. A combination of case rarity and name similarity was nearly leading to an inopportune surgery in a 21 years old woman. The clinical presentation was completely similar to a cauda equina syndrome associated with urinary incontinence and bilate...

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Autores principales: Omidi-Kashani, Farzad, Sharifi Dalooei, Seyed Mohammad Ata
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Iranian Neuroscience Society 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636880/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307958
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description Herpes zoster is a rare cause of non-discogenic sciatica. A combination of case rarity and name similarity was nearly leading to an inopportune surgery in a 21 years old woman. The clinical presentation was completely similar to a cauda equina syndrome associated with urinary incontinence and bilateral leg involvement. Concurrently, lumbosacral imaging of another patient with exactly similar name in the picture archiving communications system (PACS) has shown a huge L5-1 disc herniation. Careful attention to all diverse causes of sciatica and identifying details of the images could prevent improper discectomy in our patient.
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spelling pubmed-46368802016-06-15 Impending Discectomy in a Patient with Zoster Induced Sciatica; An Instructive Case Report Omidi-Kashani, Farzad Sharifi Dalooei, Seyed Mohammad Ata Basic Clin Neurosci Case Report Herpes zoster is a rare cause of non-discogenic sciatica. A combination of case rarity and name similarity was nearly leading to an inopportune surgery in a 21 years old woman. The clinical presentation was completely similar to a cauda equina syndrome associated with urinary incontinence and bilateral leg involvement. Concurrently, lumbosacral imaging of another patient with exactly similar name in the picture archiving communications system (PACS) has shown a huge L5-1 disc herniation. Careful attention to all diverse causes of sciatica and identifying details of the images could prevent improper discectomy in our patient. Iranian Neuroscience Society 2015-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4636880/ /pubmed/27307958 Text en Copyright© 2015 Iranian Neuroscience Society This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
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title_short Impending Discectomy in a Patient with Zoster Induced Sciatica; An Instructive Case Report
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