title: First report of perforation of ligamentum flavum by sequestrated lumbar intervertebral disc.
abstract: Disc fragments are well known to migrate to superior, inferior, or lateral sites in the anterior epidural space, posterior epidural migrated lumbar disc fragments is an extremely rare disorder, 61 cases have been reported to date. However, there were no cases with perforated ligamentum flavum (LF). We report a different case with perforation of ligamentum ligamentum by disc fragment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of perforation LF by a posterior epidural migrated sequester disc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Bulent
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ozdemir
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ayhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kanat
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Osman Ersegun
authors.initials: OE
authors.lastname: Batcik
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Medical Faculty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Cihangir
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erturk
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Medical Faculty, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Rize, Turkey.
authors.forename: Fatma Beyazal
authors.initials: FB
authors.lastname: Celiker
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ali Riza
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Guvercin
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ugur
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Yazar
keywords: Epidural; ligamentum flavum; lumbar intervertebral disc; posterior