Hi! Thanks for your interest! The thrust of the case from my standpoint was the imaging differential- but my perspectives are skewed by my background :) Thoracic disc disease likely can cause axial pain, although there is precious little data, the thoracic ...
Hi! I think what struck me most about this case was that the patient had axial thoracic back pain for 2 or so years before she developed radiating pain. Although it's an oversimplification, we're often taught that "disc herniations do not cause axial ...
Kleimeyer JP, Koltsov JCB, Smuck MW, Wood KB, Cheng I, Hu SS. Cervical epidural steroid injections: incidence and determinants of subsequent surgery. Spine J. 2020 Nov;20(11):1729-1736. Reviewer: Taylor Burnham, DO Peer Reviewer: Vance Lehman, MD ...