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- Title
Lumbar disk herniation presented with cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman.
- Authors
Hakan, Tayfun
- Abstract
Despite low back pain being common in pregnancy, cauda equina syndrome is rare. Misdiagnosis and delay in treatment may cause neurological sequelae including urinary and fecal incontinence, sexual dysfunction in patients. A case of cauda equina syndrome in a pregnant woman at 25-week gestation is presented here. The patient underwent an emergency, standard lumbar microdiscectomy under general anesthesia on prone position. Neither the patient nor the baby had any complication related to surgery.
- Subjects
INTERVERTEBRAL disk hernias; LUMBAR vertebrae diseases; CAUDA equina; PREGNANCY complications; DISEASES
- Publication
Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 2, p197
- ISSN
0976-3147
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.4103/0976-3147.98243