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Sciatic pain and the piriformis muscle

Postgraduate Medicine, 1983
(1983). Sciatic pain and the piriformis muscle. Postgraduate Medicine: Vol. 74, No. 2, pp. 69-72.
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Arthroscopic Release of the Piriformis Muscle Under Local Anesthesia for Piriformis Syndrome

Arthroscopy - Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, 2003
Abstract We developed a minimally invasive technique of releasing the piriformis muscle under endoscopic control for entrapment neuropathy of the sciatic nerve because of tension and contraction of the piriformis muscle. This surgical technique was performed in patients who fulfilled at least 5 of 9 diagnostic criteria we established ...
Hiroshi Miki
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Unusual Cause of 'Piriformis Muscle Syndrome'

Archives of Neurology, 1990
The piriformis muscle syndrome is a controversial "clinical" syndrome primarily characterized by signs and symptoms of sciatic nerve compression at the region of the piriformis muscle as it passes through the greater sciatic notch. The syndrome is often referred to; however, cases are rarely reported, and it is generally an uncommon diagnosis. Of those
S M, Papadopoulos, J E, McGillicuddy, J W, Albers   +2 more
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Piriformis Muscle Syndrome

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, 2013
Piriformis syndrome (PS) is an uncommon cause of sciatica-like pain with buttock pain referred to the leg and caused by extraspinal compression of the sciatic nerve by the piriformis muscle.1 Diagnosis is often difficult.
Wafa, Hamdi, Mohamed Mehdi, Ghannouchi, Dhia, Kaffel, Mohamed Montacer, Kchir   +3 more
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Scintigraphic Appearance of the Piriformis Muscle Syndrome

Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 1985
This is the first report in the nuclear medicine literature of the scintigraphic appearance of the piriformis muscle syndrome. This syndrome previously has been thought to be a purely clinical diagnosis and imaging modalities have been ignored. However, its confusing clinical presentation can lead to unnecessary surgical exploration.
R D, Karl, M A, Yedinak, M F, Hartshorne, M A, Cawthon, J M, Bauman, W H, Howard, S R, Bunker   +6 more
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Piriformis Muscle Syndrome

1990
Although the symptoms are essentially the result of sciatic nerve entrapment, because of its peculiar and specific manifestations, this disturbance deserves special consideration. The neuropathy is essentially the result of a spasm (or possibly a localized hyperirritability) of the piriformis muscle, which by its location may result in direct pressure ...
Oscar A. Turner, Norman Taslitz, Steven Ward   +2 more
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Piriformis Muscle Syndrome

2017
The piriformis muscle is a commonly overlooked diagnosis when patients present with leg pain generated below the iliac crest.
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Piriformis muscle syndrome.

Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis, 2007
Sciatica is characterized by radiating pain from the sacro-lumbar region to the buttocks and down to the lower limb. The causes of sciatica usually relate to degenerative changes in the spine and lesions to the intervertebral discs. Secondary symptomatic sciatica may by caused by metastases to the vertebra, tuberculosis of the spine, tumors located ...
Elzbieta, Kuncewicz, Ewa, Gajewska, Magdalena, Sobieska, Włodzimierz, Samborski   +3 more
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Injection of the Piriformis Muscle by Fluoroscopic and Electromyographic Guidance

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 1998
Background There is not a universally accepted single technique for injection of the piriformis muscle that has validated exact placement of the needle tip within the piriformis muscle. Objective We sought a methodology that would precisely document
S M, Fishman, O A, Caneris, T B, Bandman, J F, Audette, D, Borsook   +4 more
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Pyomyositis of the Piriformis Muscle

2023
S. Shanmuga Jayanthan, S. Shanumga Hariharan, K. Nadanasadharam   +2 more
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