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Disc and Degenerative Disease: Stenosis, Spondylosis and Subluxation

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Diseases of the Spinal Cord

Part of the book series: Clinical Medicine and the Nervous System ((CLIN.MED.NERV.))

Abstract

More than a century ago, Godlee removed the first brain tumour (Davis and Bradford 1986); yet it was over 50 years later before the first extruded lumbar intervertebral disc was excised (Mixter and Barr 1934). Since the Second World War degenerative and disc disease affecting the contents of the spinal column, i.e. the spinal cord and cauda equina, has received increasing recognition and appears to be ever more common. As late as the 1930s, sciatica was thought to originate within the sciatic nerve and was treated with bizarre methods such as high pressure oxygen insufflation.

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  1. C. H. G. Davis
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  1. Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Sharoe Green Lane, PR2 4HT, Preston, Lancashire, UK

    Edmund Critchley DM, FRCP (Consultant Neurologist) (Consultant Neurologist)

  2. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4E3, Canada

    Andrew Eisen MD, FRCP(C) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit)

  3. Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, V5Z 4E3, Canada

    Andrew Eisen MD, FRCP(C) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit) (Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Head of the Neuromuscular Disease Unit)

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Davis, C.H.G. (1992). Disc and Degenerative Disease: Stenosis, Spondylosis and Subluxation. In: Critchley, E., Eisen, A. (eds) Diseases of the Spinal Cord. Clinical Medicine and the Nervous System. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3353-7_11

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