[Diagnosis of intervertebral disk hernia in patients with discogenic lumbosacral radiculitis using a matrix table]

For a more precise diagnosis of the level of nucleus pulposus herniation in lumbar osteochondrosis, a table has been compiled taking into account 35 signs of the disease. It is based on numerical evaluation of individual symptoms of the disease depending on their topico-diagnostic importance. The table was checked on 108 patients with discogenic lumbosacral radiculitis treated at the neurosurgical department of the clinic in whom posterolateral or paramedial herniation of the nucleus pulposus at the level of L4 or L5 was discovered during the operation. The table diagnosis proved to be correct in 91% of patients, while the preoperative clinical diagnosis--only in 82% of patients. All this provides the grounds for the use of this table in precise diagnosis of the level of nucleus pulposus herniation in discogenic lumbosacral radiculitis.