Lumbo-Sacral Adhesive Arachnoiditis

Arachnoiditis Following Caudal Epidural Injections for the Lumbo-Sacral Radicular Pain

Caudal epidural steroid injection is a very common intervention in treatment of low back pain and sciatica symptoms. Although extensively used, it is not devoid of complications. A few reports of chemical and infective arachnoiditis exist following lumbar epidural anaesthesia, but none following a caudal epidural steroid injection.We report a case of arachnoiditis following caudal epidural ster...

Lumbo-sacral arthrodesis after laminectomy.

The necessity for arthrodesis of the lumbo-sacral spine after laminectomy has been performed arises mainly in the treatment of spondylolisthesis and some lesions of the intervertebral discs. In most cases of spondylolisthesis the lamina is loose and unattached to its body, so it can play no useful part in the fusion operation. Apart from this, it should in all cases be removed to allow a thorou...

Lumbo-sacral interbody spinal fusion.

During the years from 1948 to 1956 a lumbo-sacral inter-body spinal fusion was done on forty-eight patients through a posterior approach. The operations have been divided chronologically into three groups. Improvements in the surgical technique were added in the two later groups, so that ultimately a new operative procedure was evolved and used in the last group, which gave the highest rate of ...

Uncommon Complications of Adhesive Arachnoiditis

Uncommon Complications of Adhesive Arachnoiditis