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MRIMusculoskeletalConfirmedFRCR 2B
Foraminal and subarticular lumbar disc prolapse
Clinical Presentation
Progressive right quadriceps weakness. Right leg pain.
- 1Right foraminal and subarticular disc prolapse at L3/L4
- 2This effaces the fat around the L3 nerve root as it exits the neural foramen at L3-4.L4-5 small central bulge
- 3The canal and foramina are preserved.L1 conus
- 4Normal cauda equina
- 5From intervertebral disc nomenclature
- 6Illustration by Frank Gaillard.