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Femoral neuropathy secondary to ossification of the ligamentum flavum
F Debiais1, B Bataille, P Debiais
1Department of Rheumatology, Jean Bernard Hospital, Poitiers, France.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|May 17, 2000
Abstract:
Radiculopathy resulting from ossification of the ligamentum flavum (OLF) is extremely rare and concerns only intercostal neuralgias. We describe a 37-year-old Caucasian woman with a lumbar radiculopathy revealing an OLF. Her symptoms were completely and definitively relieved by surgery.