Articles: back-pain.
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The MMPI profiles of 74 low back pain patients who had previously been classified as "functional,""organic," or "mixed" were sorted into six profile groups. The six profile groups were those used by Pichot, Perse, Lekous, Dureau, Perez, and Rychewaert (1972); denial, "conversion V" without defensiveness, "conversion V" with defensiveness, depressed/anxious, psychotic and normal. Results indicate that all six profile types are well represented in the low back pain group. ⋯ Pathological MMPI profile groups did not differ significantly from each other on the "functional" pain scales. The data presented in this study point to the relationship of various forms of psychopathology with "functional pain." The findings of this study would not support a homogeneous "pain personality" for low back pain patients. However, combined "conversion V" profiles accounted for 58% of the "functional" group, 45% of the "mixed" group and 35% of the "organic" group.
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Psychiatr Neurol Med Psychol (Leipz) · Sep 1977
[Incidence and diagnosis of lumbosacral pouch diverticula].
The myelograms of ninety-nine patients with an ischias symptomatology were analyzed. In fifteen of the subjects there were found lumbosacral radicular pouch diverticula which, after elimination of other nosogenic factors, were considered chiefly responsible for the clinical and neurological pictures observed in six cases. The pathological and anatomical, clinical and radiographic results described by the authors represent a disease picture which is little known and, hence, not generally included in the differential diagnosis of ischialgia, but which has been found to yield to neurosurgical treatment in selected cases.