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First Aid question: What is lumbar annular fissure tear? Basically a tear in a cartilegenous disc in the lumbar spine. A common, painful, hard to cure ailment. ... Can surgery be done for lumbar annular fissure tear? Left posterior paracentral annular margin fissure or tear?
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[Archive] annular fissure? Back Problems ... HealthBoards Message Boards > Health Issues > Back Problems > annular fissure? ... View Full Version : annular fissure?
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The Neurologist says that the minimal degenerative disc changes, the disc bulge and posterior annular fissure at L4-L5 is slight and means nothing. I reminded the Neurologist that my tail bone sticks out and that I wanted to know if that in any way affects the pain I get going down my leg on into the little toe.
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l4 l5, annular fissure, disc dessication: Hi Robert, The MRI doesn t explain everything, I need more of a complete history rule rule out food allergies or other neurological disorders. E-mail your # and I ll call you when I am done with patients Friday. ... There is a posterior annular fissure at L4-L5.
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mri of cervical spine, foraminal stenosis, annular fissure: I don t believe you need surgery, yet. I and many of my colleagues treat these symptoms everyday. It would be easier to describe to you in person the MRI, but I will take a shot. ... More Back and Neck Injury Answers; ... Ask a question about Back and Neck Injury;
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The fissure, or tear, of this structure causes tissue damage that generates prostaglandin release and subsequent inflammation.As the disc extrudes past the annular tear, the disc material begins to impinge on the nerve root adjacent to the disc.
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Interscan variability was highly correlated between CT-discography and MRI-discography when used to determine disc normality, general degeneration, annular fissure, disc herniation, and contrast leakage (average r = 0.87, 0.87, 0.89, 0.92, and 0.77, respectively).
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The more common form involves annular tears with herniation of the nucleus pulposus (ie, ... Because of intradiscal compressive forces, disc material has a tendency to follow the radial fissure because it is the path of least resistance. Once the radial fissure becomes complete, the disc is predisposed to herniate.
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Annular resistance efficiently opposes this outward pressure, creating a hoop tension effect. The intervertebral disc is so effective at resisting these axial loads that a 40-kg load to a disc causes only 1 mm of vertical compression and only 0.5 mm of radial expansion.
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