Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain

Limbus vertebra (LV) represents a marginal interosseous herniation of the nucleus pulposus, usually in the midlumbar region. It is generally diagnosed as an incidental radiological finding during investigation of a case presenting low back pain or lumbar radiculopathy symptomatology. In this article...

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Autores principales: Graikos, Georgios, Gkoudina, Antigoni, Tsakonas, Nikolaos, Christakis, Nikolaos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Radiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133828
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10658
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author Graikos, Georgios
Gkoudina, Antigoni
Tsakonas, Nikolaos
Christakis, Nikolaos
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Tsakonas, Nikolaos
Christakis, Nikolaos
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description Limbus vertebra (LV) represents a marginal interosseous herniation of the nucleus pulposus, usually in the midlumbar region. It is generally diagnosed as an incidental radiological finding during investigation of a case presenting low back pain or lumbar radiculopathy symptomatology. In this article, we report a case of a 37-year-old male patient complaining of acute low back pain. Imaging revealed a bone defect on the anterosuperior edge of L3 vertebra, finding that was attributed to LV. A comprehensive literature review was conducted regarding LV that should be included in the differential diagnosis of imaging findings of vertebral end defects.
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spelling pubmed-75863692020-10-29 Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain Graikos, Georgios Gkoudina, Antigoni Tsakonas, Nikolaos Christakis, Nikolaos Cureus Radiology Limbus vertebra (LV) represents a marginal interosseous herniation of the nucleus pulposus, usually in the midlumbar region. It is generally diagnosed as an incidental radiological finding during investigation of a case presenting low back pain or lumbar radiculopathy symptomatology. In this article, we report a case of a 37-year-old male patient complaining of acute low back pain. Imaging revealed a bone defect on the anterosuperior edge of L3 vertebra, finding that was attributed to LV. A comprehensive literature review was conducted regarding LV that should be included in the differential diagnosis of imaging findings of vertebral end defects. Cureus 2020-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7586369/ /pubmed/33133828 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10658 Text en Copyright © 2020, Graikos et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain
title Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain
title_full Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain
title_fullStr Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain
title_full_unstemmed Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain
title_short Limbus Vertebrae as Incidental Finding in a Patient With Acute Lower Back Pain
title_sort limbus vertebrae as incidental finding in a patient with acute lower back pain
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7586369/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33133828
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10658
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