A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review

Bertolotti's syndrome is a congenital condition characterized by the sacralization of the lower lumbar vertebrae or the lumbarization of the sacral vertebrae. The cause of pain in Bertolotti’s syndrome is multifactorial. This lumbosacral transitional vertebra has a prevalence of 4% to 30%. Rare...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Jasvindar, Ali, Sundas, Zadran, Nasrullah, Singh, Manjeet, Ahmed, Zahoor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209518
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10957
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author Kumar, Jasvindar
Ali, Sundas
Zadran, Nasrullah
Singh, Manjeet
Ahmed, Zahoor
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description Bertolotti's syndrome is a congenital condition characterized by the sacralization of the lower lumbar vertebrae or the lumbarization of the sacral vertebrae. The cause of pain in Bertolotti’s syndrome is multifactorial. This lumbosacral transitional vertebra has a prevalence of 4% to 30%. Rarely, it is considered in the differential diagnosis of low back pain in young people. Therefore, every aspect of Bertolotti’s syndrome needs to be meticulously addressed, and it should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic back pain. Herein, we present a case of Bertolotti’s syndrome presented with chronic lower back pain, confirmed on X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He was managed with analgesics and steroids injection with regular follow-up.
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spelling pubmed-76676162020-11-17 A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review Kumar, Jasvindar Ali, Sundas Zadran, Nasrullah Singh, Manjeet Ahmed, Zahoor Cureus Internal Medicine Bertolotti's syndrome is a congenital condition characterized by the sacralization of the lower lumbar vertebrae or the lumbarization of the sacral vertebrae. The cause of pain in Bertolotti’s syndrome is multifactorial. This lumbosacral transitional vertebra has a prevalence of 4% to 30%. Rarely, it is considered in the differential diagnosis of low back pain in young people. Therefore, every aspect of Bertolotti’s syndrome needs to be meticulously addressed, and it should be included in the differential diagnosis of chronic back pain. Herein, we present a case of Bertolotti’s syndrome presented with chronic lower back pain, confirmed on X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). He was managed with analgesics and steroids injection with regular follow-up. Cureus 2020-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7667616/ /pubmed/33209518 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10957 Text en Copyright © 2020, Kumar 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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Kumar, Jasvindar
Ali, Sundas
Zadran, Nasrullah
Singh, Manjeet
Ahmed, Zahoor
A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
title A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_fullStr A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_short A Rare Case of Bertolotti's Syndrome in a Young Patient: A Case Report and Literature Review
title_sort rare case of bertolotti's syndrome in a young patient: a case report and literature review
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7667616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33209518
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10957
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