A 56-year-old man presented with a very rare true neurenteric cyst in the conus medullaris without evidence of vertebral or visceral anomaly manifesting as a 6-month history of mild low back and bilateral inguinal pain. No motor weakness was found in the bilateral lower extremities. He had also suffered dysesthesia in the bilateral feet for several weeks before admission. Lumbar spine magnetic ...

A 36-year-old female presented with low back pain and was admitted. During the anamnesis, she reported having undergone surgery, in the first days of life, for the repair of lumbosacral myelomeningocele and imperforate anus. She had been a full-term infant, born to an adolescent mother who had received no prenatal care. There were no reports of infection, drug use, or exposure to teratogenic ag...

background lumbar plexus block (lpb) is one of the anesthetic options in the elderly patients undergoing hip surgeries. lpb could be safe because it targets somatic nerve in psoas region. effectiveness of lpb is attributed to the sufficient analgesia provided intraoperatively as well as postoperatively. adequate muscle relaxation and immobility during surgery refers to its acceptability. object...

Objective: Although frequently regarded as a low grade malignancy, basal cell carcinoma (BCC) sometimes shows aggressive behavior. Giant BCC is defined as a lesion greater then 5 centimeter. Material and Methods: The authors described the diagnosis and treatment protocol of giant BCC, involving lumbosacral region without any local or distant metastasis. Also the authors went through a thorough...

[Purpose] This study investigated how types of lumbosacral orthoses applied to patients with chronic lumbar pain affect postural control and low back pain. [Subjects and Methods] Ten subjects were randomly selected and allocated to each a group wearing soft lumbosacral orthoses and a group wearing rigid lumbosacral orthoses. They wore the lumbosacral orthoses for 4 weeks. Pain index and postura...

The vertebrate body wall is regionalized into thoracic and lumbosacral/abdominal regions that differ in their morphology and developmental origin. The thoracic body wall has ribs and intercostal muscles, which develops from thoracic somites, whereas the abdominal wall has abdominal muscles, which develops from lumbosacral somites without ribs cage. To examine whether limb-genesis interferes wit...

Lumbosacral degenerative disc disease is a common cause of lower back and leg pain. Conventional T1-weighted imaging (T1WI) and T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) scans are commonly used to image spinal cord degeneration. However, these modalities are unable to image the entire lumbosacral spinal nerve roots. Thus, in the present study, we assessed the potential of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) for qu...