First report of perforation of ligamentum flavum by sequestrated lumbar intervertebral disc

OZDEMIR B., KANAT A., Batcik O. E., ERTURK C., CELIKER F., GÜVERCİN A. R., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION AND SPINE, cilt.8, sa.1, ss.70-73, 2017 (ESCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.4103/0974-8237.199867
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF CRANIOVERTEBRAL JUNCTION AND SPINE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.70-73
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Epidural, ligamentum flavum, lumbar intervertebral disc, posterior, SPINAL SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, ARTERY VASOSPASM, GANGLION DEGENERATION, BACK-PAIN, HERNIATION, MANAGEMENT, DISEASE, COMPLEX
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Disc fragments are well known to migrate to superior, inferior, or lateral sites in the anterior epidural space, posterior epidural migrated lumbar disc fragments is an extremely rare disorder, 61 cases have been reported to date. However, there were no cases with perforated ligamentum flavum (LF). We report a different case with perforation of ligamentum ligamentum by disc fragment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of perforation LF by a posterior epidural migrated sequester disc.