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Title: | Lumbar root entrapment syndromes : a correlative study of clinical, epidurographic & operative findings | ||||
Author: | Guirgis, Medhat Fahmy |
ISNI:
0000 0004 2717 2873
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Awarding Body: | University of Liverpool | ||||
Current Institution: | University of Liverpool | ||||
Date of Award: | 1976 | ||||
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The term "Entrapment" was first used by Russel Brain in 1947 to describe
compression of a nerve in a closed compartment created in a fibrous or
fibra-osseous tunnel through which the nerve should pass in its normal
anatomical course.
The nerve roots gain their exit to the exterior through conduits
or tunnels and not through simple intervertebral foramina as was previously
conceived.
The attitude in tackling the lumbo-sciatic problem should be changed
according to this concept and we should now manage this problem in terms
of decompression of the affected nerve roots rather than in terms of simple
disc surgery. This attitude has been made more feasible with the use ot
contrast examination of the epidural canal - epidurography - in investigating
these cases.
The aim of this thesis is to discuss the anatomy, pathogentsis and
pathology of lumbar nerve root entrapments and to present and discuss the
clinical, epidurographic and operative findings in thirty patients treated
at El-Zatoun Orthopaedic Hospital in Cairo for lumbo-sciatic problems.
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Supervisor: | Not available | Sponsor: | Not available | ||
Qualification Name: | Thesis (Ph.D.) | Qualification Level: | Doctoral | ||
EThOS ID: | uk.bl.ethos.551157 | DOI: | Not available | ||
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