Thoracic Disc Herniation (TDH): A condition where the intervertebral disc in the thoracic spine bulges or ruptures, potentially compressing nearby nerves. Transforaminal Endoscopic Thoracic ...

Thoracic disc herniation is difficult to recognize. Diagnosis is easily made when the patient has a paraparesis, but at this point the disc herniation is usually large, and the result of the disc ...

Patients presenting with acute low back pain alone are therefore unlikely to have a disc prolapse. Lumbar intervertebral disc prolapse is most prevalent between the ages of 30–50 years, and the L5/S1 ...

Your upper back (thoracic spine) contains 12 vertebrae (spinal bones) and intervertebral discs that separate and cushion the ...

In an interbody fusion, the damaged intervertebral disc is replaced with a specially designed cage that maintains proper alignment of the spine and restores proper disc height. Interbody fusions can ...

Disc herniation, defined by the protrusion or extrusion of an intervertebral disc outside the discal space, is common and easy to diagnose on MRI or CT scan. More challenging to detect is the ...

The mass also displaced the thoracic aorta laterally (figure 2 ... The preservation of the intervertebral disc architecture and lack of destruction of the vertebra are the imaging points in favour of ...