Isolated Congenital Absence of Lumbosacral Facet Joint

A congenital absence of the lumbar facet joint is a rare reported condition. This is the case of a 32-year-old male patient presenting with severe low back pain radiating to his right lower limb. Physical examination revealed no motor deficits, but right lower limb numbness was reported over dorsum...

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Autores principales: Maalouly, Joseph, Aouad, Dany, Abd El Nour, Hicham G., Nehme, Alexandre, Jabbour, Fouad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1465460
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author Maalouly, Joseph
Aouad, Dany
Abd El Nour, Hicham G.
Nehme, Alexandre
Jabbour, Fouad
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description A congenital absence of the lumbar facet joint is a rare reported condition. This is the case of a 32-year-old male patient presenting with severe low back pain radiating to his right lower limb. Physical examination revealed no motor deficits, but right lower limb numbness was reported over dorsum aspect of the right foot. No other sensory or motor disturbances were reported or found on exam. Imaging studies, consisting of a spine MRI and spine CT scan with 3D reconstruction, revealed the absence of the right L5-S1 zygapophyseal joint. The patient was treated conservatively with resolution of his symptoms on one-month follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-63902632019-03-19 Isolated Congenital Absence of Lumbosacral Facet Joint Maalouly, Joseph Aouad, Dany Abd El Nour, Hicham G. Nehme, Alexandre Jabbour, Fouad Case Rep Orthop Case Report A congenital absence of the lumbar facet joint is a rare reported condition. This is the case of a 32-year-old male patient presenting with severe low back pain radiating to his right lower limb. Physical examination revealed no motor deficits, but right lower limb numbness was reported over dorsum aspect of the right foot. No other sensory or motor disturbances were reported or found on exam. Imaging studies, consisting of a spine MRI and spine CT scan with 3D reconstruction, revealed the absence of the right L5-S1 zygapophyseal joint. The patient was treated conservatively with resolution of his symptoms on one-month follow-up. Hindawi 2019-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6390263/ /pubmed/30891323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1465460 Text en Copyright © 2019 Joseph Maalouly et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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