Abstract
Cauda equina syndrome (CES) is a rare neurological condition which is caused by compression of several of the nerve roots of the cauda equina. In 1929, Dandy was the first in English literature to publish about CES-like complaints, describing two patients with CES which were surgically decompressed, stating that it was disc material causing CES in those cases, and not, as was suggested before, spinal tumor [1]. Mixter and Barr raised much more attention with their publication 5 years later in which they demonstrated the positive effects of surgical decompression in 19 patients with CES due to lumbar herniated disc and thus advocated timely surgical intervention in all such cases [2].
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Vleggeert-Lankamp, C.L.A., Korse, N.S., Elzevier, H.W. (2019). Cauda Equina Syndrome Due to Ruptured Lumbar Intervertebral Disc: Optimal Timing for Surgery. In: Bartels, R., Rovers, M., Westert, G. (eds) Evidence for Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16323-5_15
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