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Acute low back pain is a common complaint heard in the emergency room and in a physiatrist's practice. It is important to rule out occult pathology in patients with an atypical presentation. In the case presented here, the patient was elderly, developed back pain without preceding trauma or lifting,
BACKGROUND Leptospirosis is a zoonosis transmitted through urine of infected animals. Symptoms range from mild influenza-like symptoms to severe pulmonary hemorrhagic syndrome (SPHS); the latter are often fatal. The serogroup distribution in Denmark has changed from 1988 to 2012, with
BACKGROUND
Spontaneous haemoperitoneum due to rupture of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a surgical emergency and may have catastrophic outcomes.
METHODS
A 62-year-old male presented with nausea, dizziness and low back pain. There was no history of malignancy. Physical examination revealed a
Remote cerebellar hemorrhage after cranial and spinal surgeries is a well-documented entity, so far concomitant supra- and infra-tentorial hemorrhage after spine surgery has rarely been reported in the literature. A 57-year-old woman presented with intractable low back pain and severely impaired
A 71-year-old patient with melena, abdominal and lower back pain was admitted to hospital under suspicion of upper gastrointestinal bleeding. He had mild anemia and an elevated C-reactive protein. Endoscopy and ultrasound failed to localize the source of bleeding. The patient died 2 1/2 days after
OBJECTIVE
To describe the effective treatment of a ruptured lateral sacral artery aneurysm presenting as a spinal epidural hematoma.
METHODS
Case report and literature review.
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University teaching hospital, neurovascular center.
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A man with a history of renal allograft who presented
A 60-year-old man presented with paraspinal arteriovenous fistula (AVF) manifesting as subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and acute progressive myelopathy. The patient presented with sudden onset of low back pain and paraparesis. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging revealed a vascular malformation on the
Haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) is caused by a group of RNA viruses within the family of Bunyaviridae known as hantaviruses. The classical, severe form of HFRS is characterized by fever, headache, abdominal and lumbar pain, proteinuria, haemorrhagic phenomena, shock and renal failure.
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Lumbar fusion is a proven treatment for chronic lower back pain (LBP) in the setting of symptomatic spondylolisthesis and degenerative scoliosis; however, fusion is controversial when the primary diagnosis is degenerative disc disease (DDD). Our objective was to evaluate the safety and
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Discography is a gold standard for the diagnosis of the low back pain (LBP), but it has potential dangers for the development of discitis, cerebral spinal fluid leakage, retroperitoneal bleeding, acute new back pain and the tremendous radiation exposure to the patient. Using
Nontraumatic intracranial subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) attributable to the thoracolumbar dural arteriovenous fistulas (DAVFs) has been extremely rare. A 41-year-old male patient was admitted with severe acute headache, neck stiffness, and pronounced low-back pain radiating to both legs. The
An intradural cavernoma of the spinal cord located at T12 was identified in a 39-year-old man presenting with recurrent episodes of lower back pain on the basis of MRI findings. The patient was hospitalized for severe subarachnoid hemorrhage complicated with hydrocephalia requiring