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Chapter 18 - Radiculopathy

from Section 2 - Clinical Neurosurgical Diseases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2024

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Yingda Li  and
Michael Y. Wang
Edited by
Farhana Akter ,
Nigel Emptage ,
Florian Engert  and
Mitchel S. Berger
Farhana Akter
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Nigel Emptage
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Florian Engert
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Mitchel S. Berger
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Summary

Radiculopathy refers to pathology at the nerve root level, manifest as positive symptoms such as pain, paresthesias and dysesthesias, and negative symptoms such as numbness and weakness. While a number of causes for radiculopathy exist, the archetypal etiology is lumbar disc herniation, leading to compression of the traversing or, less commonly, exiting nerve root. Such mechanical bases for radiculopathy were first recognized nearly a century ago, initially in the lumbar region by Mixter and Barr(1934),followed by the cervical spine by Semmes and Murphey in 1943.

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