Der thorakale Bandscheibenprolaps<sup>1</sup>

Kroll, Friedrich-Wilhelm; Reiss, Ernst

doi:10.1055/s-0028-1116743

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“…Unless the clinician constantly considers the diagnosis of disc protrusion and has cooperated personally with the radiologist in obtaining a detailed myelographic examination of the type described above, he is at risk to overlook these lesions. The importance of high class myelography has been stressed previously by Kroll and Reiss (1951) who attributed the fact that they had amassed such a large series of cases to the consistent excellence of the radiology. The virtues of clinical suspicion, skilful myelography, and tomography (when necessary) are confirmed by Thomson's (1966) series of 10 verified lesions encountered in a nine year period.…”

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Diagnosis and treatment of thoracic intervertebral disc protrusions

Carson

Gumpert

Jefferson

1971

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry

174

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SUMMARY A series of 14 patients with a protruded thoracic intervertebral disc is reported. We believe that the true incidence may be as high as one patient per million population per annum. Trauma, sometimes mild, seems to have played a significant role in this series. This fact coupled withpronounced numbnessand disagreeableparaesthesiae should suggest the diagnosis with thoracic spinal lesions. Armed with clinical suspicion, radiological verification of the lesion can be expected using a thorough myelographic technique supported if necessary by tomography. A posterolateral approach which combines laminectomy, complete excision of the ligamentum flavum, and the extradural removal of protruded disc is described. The technique is safe and effective.

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