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Cauda Equina Syndrome And Lumbar Disc Herniation, Chinn-Dong Chung, Chorng-Sonq Chou, Tao-Chang Hsu

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Hearniation of lumbar disc (HIVD) causing compression of the cauda equina is rare but needs urgent diagnosis and surgical treatment. Cauda equina syndrome (CES) has been described as a complex of low back pain, bilateral or unilateral sciatica, saddle anesthesia and motor weakness in the lower extremities that may progress to paraplegia with bowel and urinary bladder incontinence. The onset of bladder and rectal paralysis with saddle anesthesia should be viewed with a high index of suspicion in a patient with backache and sciatica. Three C.E.S. cases out of 169 H.I.V.D. cases who had been operated in our hospital were …