Abstract

ESCARPANTER BULIES, JULIO C. et al. Lumbar disk herniation: diagnostic correlation and postoperative evolution. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1998, vol.12, n.1-2, pp. 7-12. ISSN 1561-3100.

The correlation existing between the clinical diagnosis, the diagnosis by complementary tests (simple X-ray, CAT and myelography) and the transoperative findings of 100 patients operated on of lumbar disc herniation at the Orthopedics Service of the "Comandante Pinares" General Teaching Hospital, in San Cristóbal, from 1985 to 1994 (including both), is apporached in this paper. It was found a high correlation between the clinical diagnosis and the transoperative diagnosis, and adequate correlation between the diagnosis by CAT and myelography, and a less reliable correlation by simple X-ray. It was also proved that the final results of the surgical treatment in our casuistics are completely encouraging in only 1 out of 2 patients, which reaffirms the concept of operating on just when the bloodless treatment fails.

Keywords : INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT [surgery]; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT [radiography]; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; MYELOGRAPHY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION [pathology]; LOW BACK PAIN [diagnosis.].

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