Case Report
Idiopathic Late Subacute Epidural Hematoma: An Uncommon Cause of Pure Lumbar Radiculopathy with MR of Spinal Epidural Lesions Differentials; Revisited
| Mohamed Ragab Nouh*, Mostafa Abd El-Monem El-Shimy, Aymen Ahmed Sakr and Alaa Talaat | |
| Department of Radiology, Alexandria University, Egypt | |
| Corresponding Author : | Mohamed Ragab Nouh Department of Radiology Alexandria University Alexandria-21526, Egypt Tel: +966537476313 E-mail: mragab73@yahoo.com |
| Received June 08, 2015; Accepted June 26, 2015; Published June 30, 2015 | |
| Citation: Nouh MR, El-Shimy MAEM, Sakr AA, Talaat A (2015) Idiopathic Late Subacute Epidural Hematoma: An Uncommon Cause of Pure Lumbar Radiculopathy with MR of Spinal Epidural Lesions Differentials; Revisited. OMICS J Radiol 4:192 doi: 10.4172/2167-7964.1000192 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Nouh MR, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
Abstract
Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma is an increasingly recognized entity in clinical practice. MR is a valuable tool in diagnosis yet its chronological signal changes and different pattern of enhancement may impose a diagnostic difficulty. Other worrisome differential diagnostics with different management, prognoses represent the daily radiologist challenge. We present a case of pure lumbar radiculopathy caused by accidentally discovered spontaneous late sub-acute epidural hematoma and discuss the diagnostic differentials of lumbar spinal epidural mass lesions.
