Journal of Craniovertebral Junction and Spine (Jan 2017)

First report of perforation of ligamentum flavum by sequestrated lumbar intervertebral disc

  • Bulent Ozdemir,
  • Ayhan Kanat,
  • Osman Ersegun Batcik,
  • Cihangir Erturk,
  • Fatma Beyazal Celiker,
  • Ali Riza Guvercin,
  • Ugur Yazar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0974-8237.199867
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 70 – 73

Abstract

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Disc fragments are well known to migrate to superior, inferior, or lateral sites in the anterior epidural space, posterior epidural migrated lumbar disc fragments is an extremely rare disorder, 61 cases have been reported to date. However, there were no cases with perforated ligamentum flavum (LF). We report a different case with perforation of ligamentum ligamentum by disc fragment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of perforation LF by a posterior epidural migrated sequester disc.

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