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Skeletal muscle metastasis is a very rare event in patients with oesophageal cancer. We herein report and discuss a case of a 65 years old man with history of gastro-esophageal reflux disease referred to our department for pyrosis associated to persistent low back pain. Oesophageal endoscopy and
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The purpose of this case report is to describe the case of a young female athlete with low back pain caused by metastatic breast cancer.
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A 27-year-old woman presented with low back pain after striking a ball during kickball 3 days earlier. Because of the mechanism of injury and
BACKGROUND
Lower back pain is ubiquitous in the helicopter community and testicular cancer is the most common solid organ tumor that affects approximately 1% of men ages 15 to 35. However, rarely is lower back pain caused by testicular cancer and, in an otherwise healthy male, it is generally low on
METHODS
A case of chronic low back pain caused by a glomus tumor that persisted more than 30 years is presented.
OBJECTIVE
To emphasize the need to consider skin tumors in the differential diagnosis of low back pain.
BACKGROUND
Chronic low back pain can be caused by a myriad of factors. There are
On the background of two cases, characteristic features of intraspinal tumours in school children are discussed with the purpose of early detection of this and other serious back diseases in the large group of school children with non-specific low back pain. Special attention should be paid to
OBJECTIVE
The purposes of this study were to explore the differences between chronic cancer pain and chronic low back pain with respect to (a) the use of coping strategies to manage pain and (b) the relationship between self-efficacy for attenuating pain and pain outcomes.
METHODS
Descriptive
Two cases of spinal cord tumours (one schwannoma and one ependymoma) of the lumbar spine are reported. The treatment with radical excision and posterolateral fusion, along with adjuvant radiation therapy in the case with ependymoma was successful, with follow-up of six and seven years respectively.
OBJECTIVE
This study compared the relative efficiency of lumbar x-ray and rapid magnetic resonance (MR) imaging for diagnosing cancer-related low back pain (LBP) in primary care patients.
METHODS
We developed a decision model with Markov state transitions to calculate the cost per case detected and
This is the description of the case of a 22 year old patient with low back pain and sciatica on the right side investigated by lumbar Dimer-X-Myelography. The result of the examination was an impression in the contrast column at the L5/S 1 level on the right. At operation an intradural tumour,
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this report is to describe the clinical course of a patient referred to physiotherapy (PT) for the treatment of low back pain who was subsequently diagnosed with metastatic non-small cell carcinoma of the lung.
METHODS
A 48-year old woman was referred to PT for the
Low back pain with sciatica is one of the most common complaints of patients presenting to the ED, and it is usually managed on an outpatient basis. However, acute lower back pain not always derives from a benign cause. We report here the case of a 63-year-old diabetic man who presented to the ED
Paravertebral muscle metastasis is an extremely rare cause of low back pain. Lipomas, haemangiomas, hibernomas and liposarcomas should be considered first in the aetiology of paravertebral muscle masses. Schwannoma, neurofibroma, ganglioneuroma and paraganglioneuromas that show contiguous spread
This report describes the first case of a pregnant woman presenting low-back pain and breast pain associated with bilateral erythematous breast hypertrophy, proving to be the result of metastatic disease from a gastric carcinoma. A 30-year-old pregnant woman was admitted complaining of persistent
BACKGROUND
Patients with chronic low back pain (cLBP) have high rates of comorbid psychiatric disorders, mainly depression. Recent evidence suggests that depressive symptoms and pain, as interacting factors, have an effect on the circulating levels of inflammatory markers relevant to coronary artery
In a series of 114 stage 1 testicular tumour patients managed by a surveillance policy there have been 26 relapses. Three of these patients presented with lumbar pain as the first sign of relapse. All 3 were tumour marker non-producers and the onset of pain pre-dated radiological abnormality by up