Acute monoplegia associated with non-traumatic intradural cervical disc herniation: A case report

Abstract

Intradural disc herniation has been reported as a rare and particular type of intervertebral disc herniation. It occurs mostly in the lumbar spine, and rarely in the cervical or thoracic spine. Non-traumatic cervical intradural disc herniation is rare, with only 17 cases reported in English literature at the cervical region and can manifest itself by severe symptoms such as Brown-Sequard syndrome, transverse myelopathy and radiculopathy. We present a unique case of intradural cervical disc herniation only causing lower extremity monoplegia. To our knowledge, this is the first case described in the literature. The patient underwent microsurgical removal of the herniated disc via an anterior approach followed by interbody fixation using a cervical cage. J Clin Exp Invest 2014; 5 (1): 112-114

Keywords

• Cervical disc herniation, intradural, monoplegia

Travmanın eşlik etmediği akut monopleji nedeni olan intradural servikal disk hernisi: Olgu sunumu

Öz

Dura içi disk herniasyonu nadir olarak bildirilmiştir ve intervertebral disk herniasyonlarının özel bir tipidir. En çok lomber bölgede görülür ve servikal ve torakal bölgede nadirdir. Travma olmaksızın servikal dura içi disk herniasyonu oldukça nadir görülüp, İngilizce literatürde 17 olgu bildirilmiştir ve Brown-Sequard sendromu, transvers myelopati ve radikülopati şeklinde kendini gösterebilir. Biz alt ekstremitede sadece monoplejiye neden olan nadir bir servikal intradural disk hernisi olgusunu sunduk. Bilgimize göre bu literatürde tanımlanan ilk olgudur. Olguya anterior yaklaşımla mikrodisektomi sonrası servikal kafes uygulaması yapıldı.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Servikal disk hernisi, intradural, monopleji

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