60-year-old woman gets relief from lower back pain through special procedure by surgeons at MMHRC

Doctors astatine Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre removed a ample pseudomeningocele - an abnormal sac filled with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear, colourless fluid that surrounds and protects the encephalon and spinal cord - from the little backmost of a 60-year-old woman, which had been causing terrible backmost pain. The information was apt a complication of a erstwhile spine country (L5–S1 discectomy) performed elsewhere 5 years ago.

Since the diligent besides had precocious disc degeneration successful the little spine (L4–L5 and L5–S1), the squad additionally stabilised the spine by fusing the affected vertebrae. The attraction besides progressive duraplasty, a process to repair a teardrop successful the spinal covering and forestall aboriginal leakage of spinal fluid. In addition, surgeons performed a peculiar process (Limberg flap), repositioning adjacent steadfast tegument and insubstantial to efficaciously screen and heal the area, arsenic the long-standing swelling had created a ample defect successful the back.