Bertolotti’s syndrome: A commonly missed cause of back pain in young patients

Autor: Manmohan Singh, Dzulkarnain Amir, Nor Azlin Zainal Abidin, Fazir Mohamad
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Malaysian Family Physician, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 55-58 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1985-2274
Popis: Bertolotti’s syndrome must be considered as a differential diagnosis for lower back pain in young people. Treatment, whether conservative or operative, is still debatable. In this paper, we report a case of a 20-year-old girl presenting with lower back pain for 8 years. We administered injection with local anaesthetic and steroid injections within the pseudo-articulation; however, the pain was relieved for 3 weeks. Surgical excision of the pseudo-articulation successfully treated her back pain and the sciatica.
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