(1) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
(2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(3) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(4) The results of operative lumbar sympathectomy for both intermittent claudication and rest pain in 153 patients have been reviewed.
(5) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
(6) The subjects underwent a lumbar puncture and three nights of polysomnography.
(7) The prevalence of spondylolisthesis was found to be 5.1%, lumbarization 6.0%, sacralization 5.5% and low intercrestal line 56.9%.
(8) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
(9) Lumbosacral spine films revealed only minimal degenerative changes, while lumbar myelogram showed L4-L5 and L5-S1 ventral extradural defects.
(10) A traumatic factor in the aetiology of the AVM was also discussed, since the patient had had two preceding episodes of traffic accidents with cranial and lumbar injury.
(11) Limb abnormalities included lumbar scoliosis, short malformed tibias and fibulas, and polydactyly.
(12) Lumbar dorsal columns showed only a mild fiber loss, and no fiber loss was observed in lumbar dorsal roots.
(13) The BMD of the 2nd to 4th lumbar vertebrae was measured and the mean density presented as g cm-2.
(14) This study concluded that inverted positioning for short periods significantly increased spinal length and reduced emg activity of the superficial lumbar area musculature of normal males.
(15) This study compared 50 patients with lumbar facet fractures and continued pain after lumbar laminectomy with a postlaminectomy control group without facet fractures.
(16) CT possesses some advantages over roentgenography in the diagnosis of degenerative vertebral diseases and can be recommended as the principal method together with roentgenography for investigation of patients with lumbar pains.
(17) Low values of HVA in lumbar CSF were found in all patients with reduced CSF absorption and CSF flow inversion.
(18) We analyzed 80 consecutive cases of lumbar disc herniation who underwent an extraperitoneal anterolateral discectomy according to clinical and radiologic parameters.
(19) Both placental and blood-lumbar CSF transfer of diazepam (5 mg orally) and its two metabolites, N-desmethyldiazepam and unconjugated oxazepam, was measured (by GLC) in 15 patients undergoing Caesarean section under spinal analgesia.
(20) The rate of symptomatic relief was 81.3% (75 cases) for rheumatoid arthritis, 72.4% (29 cases) for osteoarthritis, 76.5% (34 cases) for herniations of lumbar discs and 93% (91 cases) for mild post-operative pain.
Lumbosacral
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lumbosacral spine films revealed only minimal degenerative changes, while lumbar myelogram showed L4-L5 and L5-S1 ventral extradural defects.
(2) During a postoperative follow-up period of 1 to 3 years, no further deterioration has been observed and magnetic resonance studies have demonstrated a space filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) around the lumbosacral cord.
(3) This is a correlative study of normal anatomy of the lumbosacral spine and pelvis demonstrated by SPECT and radiography in order to assure that morphologic detail resulting from SPECT is recognized and matched with radiographic landmarks in the same area.
(4) In the spinalized preparation, steady-state and nonsteady-state responses have an equal likelihood of emerging from the initial cycles of a paw-shake response, suggesting that regular coupling of joint oscillations is not planned by pattern-generating networks within lumbosacral segments.
(5) Clinical and standard radiographic evaluation of patients with lumbosacral radicular symptoms may, on occasion, fail to delineate a cause.
(6) It is concluded that chronic peripheral nerve section affects the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the formation of light touch receptive fields of dorsal horn neurons in the lumbosacral cord of the adult cat, but that the resulting reorganization of receptive fields is spatially restricted.
(7) The material includes segments from the high cervical cord through the lumbosacral enlargement, and nine cellular layers are described.
(8) Ultrastructural examination of selected sections of the lumbosacral nerves, revealed lesions characterized by reduced neurofilaments and neurotubules, and irregular lamellated axoplasmic dense bodies in all animals receiving lead.
(9) Oscillations of the dorsal root potential (DRP) at the frequency of the locomotor rhythm have been observed at the lumbosacral and cervical levels.
(10) Lumbosacral nerve plexus injuries occurred in patients with fractures through the sacral foramina.
(11) Observed complications with special attention to injuries to the lumbosacral plexus were correlated with the classification of the sacrum and pelvis, as well as with a detailed analysis of the fracture pattern and fracture characteristics.
(12) Electrical potentials in the cat lumbosacral spinal cord evoked by the action of single medial gastrocnemius Ia afferent fibres were recorded using low impedance, bevelled micropipette electrodes and the spike triggered averaging technique.
(13) Viral latency as a consequence of acute infection occurred in 38 (63%) of 60 lumbosacral dorsal root ganglia in the control group, 5 (8%; P less than .001) of 60 in the IgG-treated group, and 26 (33%; P less than .01) of 78 in the F(ab')2-treated group.
(14) From the results it can be said that the lumbosacral curve is not necessarily a compensatory curve, but may play a more positive role in the formation of the curve pattern of the entire spine.
(15) Mechanical signs of nerve root entrapment or lumbosacral plexus irritation are unimpressive.
(16) The majority of patients were placed in a custom-molded lumbosacral orthosis for 3-6 months after operation.
(17) This study examined the responses to natural cutaneous stimuli of neurons in the dorsal horn of the lumbosacral spinal cord that project to the dorsal accessory portion of the inferior olive (DAO) in cats anesthetized with pentobarbital sodium.
(18) We recommend MRI in patients undergoing spinal stabilization procedures and in all patients with lumbosacral kyphosis and those with pain, neurologic findings, or cutaneous hairy patch.
(19) The activity of lateral vestibular nucleus (LVN) neurons, antidromically identified by stimulation of the spinal cord at T12 and L1, thus projecting to the lumbosacral segments of the spinal cord (IVS neurons), was recorded in precollicular decerebrate cats during rotation about the longitudinal axis either of the whole animal (labyrinth input) or of the body only while the head was kept stationary (neck input).
(20) Above the lumbosacral level the incidence of neurologic signs and spinal stenosis increases, and further forward slip in adult life is not uncommon.