Sciatica  

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Ropper, Allan H. ; Zafonte, Ross D.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 372 no. 13 (Mar. 2015), page 1240-1248.

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The mundane malady sciatica has been known to physicians since antiquity.1 It is pain that radiates from the buttock downward along the course of the sciatic nerve,2 but the term has been used indiscriminately for a variety of back and leg symptoms. Although sciatica has several causes, Mixter and Barr extended previous observations to establish in 1934 that the principal source is compression of a lumbar nerve root by disk material that has ruptured through its surrounding annulus (see the Glossary).3 Neuroradiologic studies affirm that 85% of cases of sciatica are associated with a disk disorder

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