Hiroki Hirabayashi, Jun Takahashi, Hiroyuki Hashidate, Nobuhide Ogihara, Atsutoshi Tashiro, Hiromichi Misawa, Sohei Ebara, Katsuhiro Mitsui, Shinji Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki Kato
BACKGROUND: In degenerative lumbar spinal disease with nerve root compression, the L5 and S1 nerve roots are the most often affected and the L3 nerve root is involved infrequently. The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of L3 nerve root radiculopathy. METHODS: Seventeen consecutive patients with L3 radiculopathy were treated. The symptomatic nerve roots were determined by the pain distribution, the neurologic findings, and selective nerve root injection...
July 2009: Surgical Neurology