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Intermittent claudication is commonly observed in lumbar spinal stenosis and obstructive arterial disease. However, this condition due to compressive lesions to the spinal cord is very rare. Spinal cord intermittent claudication presents with exaggerated spasticity during walking. Reduced spinal cord blood flow during walking may be the cause of this symptom but no article has described the pathogenesis of compressive lesions to the spinal cord, by which intermittent claudication may be caused. Two cases of thoracic ossification of the ligamentum fiavum (OLF) with spinal cord intermittent claudication are presented.
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Baba, H., Kawahara, N., Tomita, K., Nakahashi, K., Imura, S. (1994). Spinal cord evoked potentials in spinal cord intermittent claudication. In: Jones, S.J., Hetreed, M., Boyd, S., Smith, N.J. (eds) Handbook of Spinal Cord Monitoring. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1416-5_13
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