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Pathophysiology of lumber disc prolapseOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Clinical, plain radiogllaphic, rnyelographic, cornputed tomography nnd operative studies were carried out i n thirty cases of lul~lbcr disc disease ~d!nitted to IJeurosurgery Unit of Tsnta University Hospital. Disc prolapse nas a major cause of low back pain and sciatica, and the moat commonly affected was the fourth, then the fifth lumbar discs* Males predominated over females. The disease appeared frequently in the earlie2 part of the fi9th decade without a definite correlation between its occuxrence and the type of vioxk. Trauma could be hardly considered as a sole pathogenetic factor in this disease.