Compression of thoracic nerve root by a facet joint synovial cyst: case report.
Synovial cysts are not an uncommon feature in the mobile spinal segments. The lack of reports at the thoracic level has stimulated us to present this patient with compression of the 10th dorsal root.
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Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Porto Alegre, R.S., Brazil.
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots; D013581:Synovial Cyst / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013900:Thoracic Nerves; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed