Diagnosis and treatment of lumbosacral cyst
DOU Huai-zhou
Abstract：Objective To investigate the clinical manifestations,diagnosis and treatment of lumbosacral cyst.Methods Eighteen lumbosacral cyst patients were confirmed by operation.Among them,13 cases were nerve root cyst,including 7 cases connected with endorhachis were treated with cyst excision and endorhachis repair;six case;endorhachis not connected with endorhachis were treated with cyst excision.Four cases of epidural cyst were treated with direct resection.One case of secondary spinal epidural cyst after disc surgery were treated with cyst excision and endorhachis repair.Results Fifteen cases had 6 to 186 months'follow-up,average 43.2 months.All of the 15 patients of an excellent effect without waist and leg pain after operation.Conclusion Lumbosacral cyst is one of the causes for waist and leg lumbosacral pain.The diagnosis relies on typical symptoms,signs and CTM,MRI examinations,which needs to be distinguished with lumbosacral tumor.Different cysts need different operations which can bring excellent effects.
Keywords：Lumbosacral cystComputed topographic myelographyNuclear magnetic resonance
Publication Date：2008-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2026-09-14(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：2( 710-711 )