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Central disc protrusion

Case contributed by Frank Gaillard
Diagnosis certain
mri

Single T2 image demonstrates a central disc protrusion largely effacing the thecal sac with only a small amount of CSF seen around the cauda equina. The right-sided descending nerve rood is contacted and lightly compressed in the subarticular recess. 

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