Disc sequestration
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View Ian Bickle's current disclosures- Intervertebral disc sequestration
- Sequestrated disc
- Free disc fragment
- Fragment of disc
- Sequestration of disc
- Sequestration of inververtebral disc
- Disk sequestration
- Sequestrated disk
- Sequestered disc
- Sequestered disk
- Free disc fragments
- Free disk fragments
- Fragment of disk
Sequestrated disc, also referred to as a free disc fragment, corresponds to extruded disc material that has no continuity with the parent disc and is displaced away from the site of extrusion. By definition, it corresponds to a subtype of disc extrusion.
The term "migrated" disc refers only to position and not to the continuity of disc substance. So, this term can be used when referring either to extruded discs that still have continuity or those without, i.e. sequestrated (e.g. disc extrusion migrated caudally, sequestrated disc migrated cranially).
History and etymology
The English word 'sequester' is uncommonly used in everyday speech but means to 'set apart' or 'set aside' 2. It is of course also used in the sense of a piece of dead bone set apart from the rest of the bone, i.e. a bony sequestrum, most commonly in chronic osteomyelitis 3.
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References
- 1. Fardon D, Williams A, Dohring E, Murtagh F, Gabriel Rothman S, Sze G. Lumbar Disc Nomenclature: Version 2.0: Recommendations of the Combined Task Forces of the North American Spine Society, the American Society of Spine Radiology and the American Society of Neuroradiology. Spine J. 2014;14(11):2525-45. doi:10.1016/j.spinee.2014.04.022 - Pubmed
- 2. Editors of Chambers, Ian Brookes. The Chambers Dictionary. (2006) ISBN: 9780550101853 - Google Books
- 3. Alaia E, Chhabra A, Simpfendorfer C et al. MRI Nomenclature for Musculoskeletal Infection. Skeletal Radiol. 2021;50(12):2319-47. doi:10.1007/s00256-021-03807-7 - Pubmed
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