• Eur Spine J · May 2006

    Case Reports

    Lumbar disk herniation with contralateral symptoms.

    • Hasan Kamil Sucu and Fazil Gelal.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Izmir Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey. hsucu@yahoo.com
    • Eur Spine J. 2006 May 1;15(5):570-4.

    AbstractThe aim of the study is to determine if leg pain can be caused by contralateral lumbar disk herniation and if intervention from only the herniation side would suffice in these patients. Five patients who had lumbar disk herniations with predominantly contralateral symptoms were operated from the side of disk herniation without exploring or decompressing the symptomatic side. Patients were evaluated pre- and postoperatively. To our knowledge, this is the first reported series of such patients who were operated only from the herniation side. The possible mechanisms of how contralateral symptoms predominate in these patients are also discussed. In all patients, the shape of disk herniations on imaging studies were quite similar: a broad-based posterior central-paracentral herniated disk with the apex deviated away from the side of the symptoms. The symptoms and signs resolved in the immediate postoperative period. Our data clears that sciatica can be caused by contralateral lumbar disk herniation. When operation is considered, intervention only from the herniation side is sufficient. It is probable that traction rather than direct compression is responsible from the emergence of contralateral symptoms.

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