Neue Aspekte zur Diagnostik des Bandscheibenvorfalls der oberen Lendenwirbelsäule unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der MRT

A report is presented on two patients who received surgery on a disc prolapse between the lumbar vertebrae 4 and 5 as treatment for compression of the fifth lumbar root, but in whom the clinically relevant disc prolapse was located higher. Magnetic resonance tomography made a major contribution to the later diagnosis of the high disc prolapses