Herniation of calcified cervical intervertebral disc causes dissociated motor loss in a child.
Herniation of the calcified nucleus pulposus is a rare complication of intervertebral disc calcification in children. Surgical intervention is rarely indicated in the majority of such cases. This paper reports a 12-year-old boy with a calcified nucleus pulposus at C7-T1 which had ruptured into the spinal canal, causing dissociated motor loss. Anterior discectomy and fusion were performed and the patient's muscle weakness markedly improved after surgery.
Oga
M
M
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Terada
K
K
Kikuchi
N
N
Oda
Y
Y
Sugioka
Y
Y
D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D017586:Diskectomy; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology*; D013123:Spinal Fusion