title: Thoracic dorsal ramus entrapment. Case report.
abstract: Entrapment of the dorsal ramus of a thoracic spinal nerve is described in a patient with chronic back pain and sensory disturbance in the cutaneous territory served by the T3-5 dorsal rami. The dorsal ramus of the T-4 nerve was found to be compressed by a bone spur involving the inferior T-4 apophyseal facet. The point of entrapment was a tunnel bounded by the transverse process, apophyseal joint, rib, and superior costotransverse ligament.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cádiz, Spain.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: González-Darder
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001416:Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D013127:Spinal Nerves; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae