title: Spinal cord ischemia in Scheuermann disease: A report of three cases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Neurological complications in Scheuermann's disease are rare but serious.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report three cases of severe neurological deficit due to medullar ischemia attributable to the compression of a radiculomedullar artery by thoracic (two cases) and lumbar (one case) disc herniations associated with Scheuermann's disease. They were not treated surgically because of the absence of direct spinal cord compression or definitive spinal cord ischemia. Those young patients still have severe neurological damage. An earlier management could have prevented them.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  When doubting about any compressive sign, MRI should be performed with diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) sequences in emergency.
authors.affiliation: Service d'imagerie médicale, groupe Rachis, hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches, France. Electronic address: lea.l.chiche@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Léa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chiche
authors.affiliation: Service d'imagerie médicale, groupe Rachis, hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches, France.
authors.forename: Robert-Yves
authors.initials: RY
authors.lastname: Carlier
authors.affiliation: Service d'imagerie médicale, groupe Rachis, hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches, France.
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Siahou
authors.affiliation: Service d'imagerie médicale, groupe Rachis, hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches, France.
authors.forename: Arnaud
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nataf
authors.affiliation: Service de rééducation, hôpital Raymond-Poincaré, AP-HP, 92380 Garches, France.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hugeron
authors.affiliation: Service de rééducation et réadaptation de l'appareil locomoteur et des pathologies du rachis, hôpital Cochin, AP-HP, 75014 Paris, France; Inserm U1153, faculté de médecine Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Clémence
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Palazzo
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D012544:Scheuermann Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D020760:Spinal Cord Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male
keywords: Disc herniation; Kyphosis; Neurological complication; Scheuermann's disease; Spinal cord ischemia