Herniated Nucleus Pulposus in a Child of Twelve Years
Abstract
FROM LUDVIKA HOSPITAL. H E A D : T H E AUTHOR HERNIATED NUCLEUS PULPOSUS IN A CHILD OF TWELVE YEARS BY HERMAN WAHREN For somewhat more than a decade, degenerative processes in the intervertebral discs have been the object of much interest from a clinical point of view, and the literature on the subject, which increases yearly, shows that this problem can still be considered from new angles. An account will be given here of a case I treated this year, which is of interest in several yespects. Monica P., born 1932. Previously well. I n the middle of September, during gymnastics a t school, the patient assumed a n âarch-stoop-standingâ position (the pupil stands on his hands with trunk and legs arched somewhat backwards and the feet supported against the wall). Immediately afterwards, she felt pains in the back, which increased during the next few days, and radiated from the buttocks down to the knee on the posterior side of the right leg. Since then, these pains have increased, and during last week the patient has felt aching pain all the way down to the right heel. The pain is intensified on coughing and sneezing. She