Abstract
A discal cyst, also known as a “disk cyst,” is an unusual spinal entity defined as the communication of an intraspinal extradural cyst with the adjacent intervertebral disk. First described in the English literature by Kono et al. in 1999, approximately 130 cases have been identified to date, exclusively in the lumbar spine. For some authors, discal cysts have some pathological similarities with postoperative discal pseudocysts.
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Akhaddar, A. (2023). Discal Cysts. In: Atlas of Sciatica. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44984-0_29
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