IVDD involves disc herniation or rupture, causing spinal cord compression with varying severity, from pain to paralysis. Breeds like Dachshunds are predisposed, but factors like obesity and trauma ...

This presentation will focus on providing a review of the literature related to the diagnosis and treatment of canine acute intervertebral disc extrusion (IVDE), accompanied by an update on genetic ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a 70-year-old active dentist and pharmacist with chronic lower back pain. My MRI shows a compressed/extruded disc in contact with a specific nerve. It is extruded by 5 mm. I know ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I'm a 70-year-old active dentist and pharmacist with chronic lower back pain. My MRI shows a compressed/extruded disc in contact with a specific nerve. It is extruded by 5 mm. I know ...

Kocatepe University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, Afyon, Turkey, Vakif Gureba Training Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey and Yeditepe University Faculty of ...

Indications. Obenchain and Cloyd [27] reported on the relatively new technique of laparoscopic discectomy first performed on a patient in 1991. [28] Indications for this procedure include leg pain ...

Symptomatic herniation (prolapse) of a lumbar intravertebral disc is a common cause of chronic low back pain and sciatica. Disc herniation is a result of the protrusion of the nucleus pulposus through ...