Results 191 to 200 of about 33,061 (227)

Cauda Equina Syndrome

Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2014
Questions from patients about pain conditions and analgesic pharmacotherapy and responses from authors are presented to help educate patients and make them more effective self-advocates. The topics addressed in this issue are cauda equina syndrome, a dysfunction of the nerves in the spinal canal, and its symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
openaire   +2 more sources

Disorders of the Cauda Equina

Continuum, 2015
Cauda equina syndrome is an important neurologic disorder characterized by lower back pain, sciatica, perineal numbness, and sphincter dysfunction. This article reviews the anatomy, clinical presentation, evaluation, and treatment of cauda equina dysfunction, focusing on diskogenic cauda equina syndrome.Assessment of suspected cauda equina syndrome is ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Intrathecal paraganglioma of the cauda equina

Neurosurgery, 1984
Abstract A 33-year-old obese woman with chronic pain in her lower back presented with weakness of her right quadriceps and diminution of her patellar reflex. Her myelogram revealed an intradural oval mass at level of the interspace between her 3rd and 4th lumbar vertebrae.
M G, Reyes, H, Torres
openaire   +2 more sources

Neuritis of the Cauda Equina in a Horse

Equine Veterinary Journal, 1973
SUMMARY The clinical and pathological features of the first case in Britain of equine neuritis of the cauda equina are presented. These features were typical of the disease as reported in the literature, although cranial and spinal nerves were apparently not involved.
A G, Greenwood, J, Barker, I, McLeish
openaire   +2 more sources

Sarcoid of the cauda equina

Journal of Neurosurgery, 1977
✓ An unusual case of sarcoid involving the cauda equina, resulting in progressive paraparesis, is presented. There was no evidence of sarcoid involvement outside the nervous system, and the diagnosis was established through thoracolumbar exploration.
J N, Campbell, P, Black, P T, Ostrow
openaire   +2 more sources

Arachnoiditis ossificans of the cauda equina

British Journal of Neurosurgery, 2012
A case of post-traumatic arachnoiditis ossificans of the cauda equina is reported. The lesion is a rare pathological entity usually confined to the thoracic and high lumbar regions that can cause progressive spinal cord and cauda equine compression. The pathophysiology and therapeutic strategy of this rare entity are still controversial.
Abad Cherif, El Asri, Brahim, El Mostarchid, Ali, Akhaddar, Hassan, Baallal, Ibrahim, Dao, Okacha, Naama, Miloudi, Gazzaz, Mohamed, Boucetta   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

CLAUDICATION OF THE CAUDA EQUINA

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1977
The term “claudication of the cauda equina” is examined. It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischæmia for which there is no scientific evidence. Its use tends to hamper rather than assist the investigation of patients with obscure pain in the lower limb. A preferable alternative term, “atypical sciatica”, is suggested.
openaire   +2 more sources

Paraganglioma of the cauda equina

Journal of Neurosurgery, 1982
✓ An unusual, well demarcated, and encapsulated neoplasm of the cauda equina is presented. At first, the tumor was considered to be a variant of myxopapillary ependymoma, but the reaction for glial fibrillary acidic protein was negative. At the ultrastructural level, the neoplastic cells contained many small dense core vesicles, and the diagnosis of ...
W, Binkley, S T, Vakili, R, Worth
openaire   +2 more sources

TUMORS IN THE REGION OF THE CAUDA EQUINA

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1943
Abstract In reviewing our group of twenty-five cases as a whole, and keeping in mind the problem of the differential diagnosis of herniated nucleus pulposis, certain observations were made. Six patients had a history of trauma immediately preceding the onset of symptoms.
Ira Cohen, Abraham Kaplan
openaire   +1 more source

Cauda equina syndrome

Nursing, 2012
openaire   +2 more sources