Non-discogenic, extradural lumbosacral spinal compression

ABSTRACT

25 patients with non-discogenic extradural lumbosacral compression were studied and analysed. Spinal secondaries constituted 28% of the cases. T.B. constituted 24%, while 20% were due to post traumatic fracture spine and 8% were caused by chronic granulomatous lesion. Clinical picture and plain X-ray had a big role in diagnosis of most of the cases. Myelography had a major role in diagnosis, localisation of the site of the lesion, its extent and its relation to the nervous structures and the dura