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A lumbosacral disk herniation may give rise to a rich variety of symptoms: acute lumbar pain, radicular pain of a crural (L 3 or L 4 nerve roots) or sciatic [L 5 or S 1 (S 2) ] nature. Ordinary sciatica is a monoradicular pain of vertebral origin due to nerve root compression of diskal origin at the L 4–L 5 or L 5–S 1 level and involving a mechanical or degenerative process.
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Krausé, D., Drapé, J.L., Maitrot, D., Woerly, B., Tongio, J. (1991). Lumbar Disk Herniations. In: CT and MRI of Disk Herniations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73591-2_3
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