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Acta Orthop Belg
; 77(6): 847-52, 2011 Dec.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22308635
ABSTRACT
The authors report the case of a 38 year-old female with a rare combination of spontaneous pediculolysis with an associated contralateral laminar fracture of the lumbar spine. Multimodal radiological examinations of the whole lumbar spine are recommended in the case of a symptomatic patient with low back pain who is not responding to basic physiotherapy and pain management modalities. This will provide the unsuspecting clinician a method to diagnose this rare cause of low back pain and avoid unnecessary surgical intervention.