ABSTRACT
The camptocormia is an entity characterized by a kyphosis lumbar reductible in supine decubitus, associated to dysfunctions in computed tomography scans and histologics in the paravertebrals muscles of the lumbar segment. We contribute a new case corresponding to a 70 year-old woman with chronic lumbar pain and kyphosis dorsolumbar reductible, in who the on-line tomography showed compatible images with fatty degeneration and atrophy of the lumbar musculature, discoveries that were confirmed in the histologic study.
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Kyphosis/complications , Lumbar Vertebrae , Muscle, Skeletal/pathology , Muscular Diseases/diagnosis , Muscular Diseases/etiology , Aged , Atrophy , Back Pain/etiology , Female , Humans , Lumbar Vertebrae/diagnostic imaging , Tomography, X-Ray ComputedABSTRACT
La camptocormia es una entidad caracterizada por una cifosis lumbar reductible en decúbito supino, asociada trastornos tomodensitométricos e histológicos en los músculos paravertebrales del segmento lumbar. Aportamos un nuevo caso correspondiente a una mujer de 70 años con dolor lumbar crónico y cifosis dorsolumbar reductible, en quien la tomografia computarizada mostró imágenes compatibles con degeneración grasa y atrofia de la musculatura lumbar, hallazgos que se confirmaron en el estudio histológico (AU)
The camptocormia is an entity characterized by a kyphosis lumbar reductible in supine decubitus, associated to dysfunctions in computed tomography scans and histologics in the paravertebrals muscles of the lumbar segment. We contribute a new case corresponding to a 70 year-old woman with chronic lumbar pain and kyphosis dorsolumbar reductible, in who the on-line tomography showed compatible images with fatty degeneration and atrophy of the lumbar musculature, discoveries that were confirmed in the histologic study (AU)