Early detection of idiopathic thoracic ventral spinal cord herniation by using imaging: A case report

Abstract

Key Clinical Message In middle‐aged and older populations, clinicians often suspect lumbar spine disease when the gait is disturbed with lumbar lower extremity numbness, but spinal herniation at the thoracic level may be causal. Early detection, appropriate treatment, and minimization of complications requires understanding of characteristic magnetic resonance imaging findings of herniation.

Keywords

• gait disturbance
• overlooked case
• spinal cord herniation
• thoracic vertebrae