title: [Lateral lumbar disk herniation].
abstract: The authors present the clinical evaluation of 41 patients with extreme lateral disc herniation in the lumbar spine. This group of patients represented 3.1% of all patients operated to to discopathy of the lumbar spine at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Medical Academy of Białystock in the years 1988-1997. Males constituted 95.1% of the study series, with an age range 41-60 years. In 92.7% of the patients extreme lateral herniation was diagnosed either at L4-L5 level or L5-S1 level. In 78.1% of the cases different types of motoric disturbances were observed, while in 65.8% radicular type disorders in superficial sensibility were noted.
authors.affiliation: Klinika Neurochirurgii, Akademia Medyczna w Białymstoku.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dudek
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Michno
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Michalski
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index