An Unusual Cause of Low Back Pain: A Giant Tarlov Cyst
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 12
Abstract
Tarlov cysts are fluid-filled meningeal dilations in the spinal perineural space. They are one of the common insidental findings in lumbar MRI in daily practise, and mostly asymptomatic. Rarely, they could reach giant diameters and cause compression symptoms including sacral radiculopathy and other radicular pain syndromes. They should be kept in mind in differential diagnosis of lumbar and sacral region pain after excluding most common entities such as disc herniations, degenerative processes or masses. We report a 20-year-old patient with a giant Tarlov cyst in the lumbosacral region which compressed cauda equina and present with low back and right thigh pain. Keywords: Low back pain, magnetic resonance imaging, perineural cyst, Tarlov cyst.
Authors and Affiliations
Emine Dagistan, Betul Kizildag, Arzu Canan, Ahmet Ozden
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