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Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report
BACKGROUND: The spontaneous resorption of lumbar disk herniations (LDHs) has been widely reported. However, the majority of these reports analyze the resorption of LDHs that were displaced backwards or downwards. There have been few reports on the spontaneous resorption of upwardly displaced L4/5 LD...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083425 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i19.4609 |
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author | Wang, Yi Liao, Shi-Chuan Dai, Guo-Gang Jiang, Ling |
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description | BACKGROUND: The spontaneous resorption of lumbar disk herniations (LDHs) has been widely reported. However, the majority of these reports analyze the resorption of LDHs that were displaced backwards or downwards. There have been few reports on the spontaneous resorption of upwardly displaced L4/5 LDH that has caused femoral nerve symptoms. CASE SUMMARY: A 55-year-old woman presented to our hospital with acute pain in her left leg. She had been suffering from recurrent lower back pain for approximately 1 year and began to feel pain accompanied with numbness at the anterior aspect of her left leg 7 d previously. On examination, a typical L4 nerve stimulation was noted. An upwardly displaced LDH at the L4/5 level was revealed by magnetic resonance imaging. The patient attained complete relief of her symptoms after 10 wk of nonsurgical treatment and the upwardly displaced herniation almost entirely disappeared. There was no recurrence during a follow-up of 2 years. CONCLUSION: Clinicians should be aware that the nerves disturbed by LDHs vary according to the direction of the herniations and the probable resorption of upwardly displaced LDHs should be considered before making a decision on surgery. |
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spelling | pubmed-75596782020-10-19 Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report Wang, Yi Liao, Shi-Chuan Dai, Guo-Gang Jiang, Ling World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: The spontaneous resorption of lumbar disk herniations (LDHs) has been widely reported. However, the majority of these reports analyze the resorption of LDHs that were displaced backwards or downwards. There have been few reports on the spontaneous resorption of upwardly displaced L4/5 LDH that has caused femoral nerve symptoms. CASE SUMMARY: A 55-year-old woman presented to our hospital with acute pain in her left leg. She had been suffering from recurrent lower back pain for approximately 1 year and began to feel pain accompanied with numbness at the anterior aspect of her left leg 7 d previously. On examination, a typical L4 nerve stimulation was noted. An upwardly displaced LDH at the L4/5 level was revealed by magnetic resonance imaging. The patient attained complete relief of her symptoms after 10 wk of nonsurgical treatment and the upwardly displaced herniation almost entirely disappeared. There was no recurrence during a follow-up of 2 years. CONCLUSION: Clinicians should be aware that the nerves disturbed by LDHs vary according to the direction of the herniations and the probable resorption of upwardly displaced LDHs should be considered before making a decision on surgery. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2020-10-06 2020-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7559678/ /pubmed/33083425 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i19.4609 Text en ©The Author(s) 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Wang, Yi Liao, Shi-Chuan Dai, Guo-Gang Jiang, Ling Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report |
title | Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report |
title_full | Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report |
title_fullStr | Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report |
title_short | Resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: A case report |
title_sort | resorption of upwardly displaced lumbar disk herniation after nonsurgical treatment: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559678/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33083425 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v8.i19.4609 |
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