MRI of Acute Low Back Pain: About an Uncommon Pitfall

Posteriorly migrated disc extrusion may mimic tumoral masses on MRI with contrast; still, this diagnosis must be evoked in patients presenting acute low back pain with a posterior epidural mass. We describe a case of epidural posterior migration of an inflammatory lumbar disc herniation in a young p...

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Autores principales: Ben Ghanem, Meriem, Sadeghi, Niloufar, Elens, Stéphanie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8984216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35399411
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22905
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description Posteriorly migrated disc extrusion may mimic tumoral masses on MRI with contrast; still, this diagnosis must be evoked in patients presenting acute low back pain with a posterior epidural mass. We describe a case of epidural posterior migration of an inflammatory lumbar disc herniation in a young patient with acute lumbosciatica. MRI showed an intracanalar mass with intense global enhancement, which is an uncommon feature of this rare condition.
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spelling pubmed-89842162022-04-08 MRI of Acute Low Back Pain: About an Uncommon Pitfall Ben Ghanem, Meriem Sadeghi, Niloufar Elens, Stéphanie Cureus Emergency Medicine Posteriorly migrated disc extrusion may mimic tumoral masses on MRI with contrast; still, this diagnosis must be evoked in patients presenting acute low back pain with a posterior epidural mass. We describe a case of epidural posterior migration of an inflammatory lumbar disc herniation in a young patient with acute lumbosciatica. MRI showed an intracanalar mass with intense global enhancement, which is an uncommon feature of this rare condition. Cureus 2022-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8984216/ /pubmed/35399411 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22905 Text en Copyright © 2022, Ben Ghanem et al. https://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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Ben Ghanem, Meriem
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MRI of Acute Low Back Pain: About an Uncommon Pitfall
title MRI of Acute Low Back Pain: About an Uncommon Pitfall
title_full MRI of Acute Low Back Pain: About an Uncommon Pitfall
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title_short MRI of Acute Low Back Pain: About an Uncommon Pitfall
title_sort mri of acute low back pain: about an uncommon pitfall
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8984216/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35399411
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22905
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