====== Thoracic disc herniation clinical features ======

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Most common symptoms: [[pain]] (60%), sensory changes (23%), motor changes (18%). With thoracic
[[radiculopathy]], pain and sensory disturbance is in a band-like distribution radiating anteriorly and
inferiorly along the involved root’s [[dermatome]]. Motor involvement is difficult to document.

see [[Thoracic discogenic pain syndrome]]

see [[Pain in thoracic disc herniation]].


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A 57 year- old man with lateral [[abdominal wall bulging]]. [[MRI]] showed thoracic [[disk]] [[herniation]] at the T11-T12 level. Needle [[electromyogram]] disclosed acute [[denervation]] in paraspinal and [[abdominal muscle]]s innervated from [[thoracic spinal nerve 11]]. Eight months later the swelling was reduced significantly. [[Thoracic disc herniation]]s are rare and three similar cases have been described previously
((Zambelis T, Polydorou A, Anagnostou E, Angourakis P, Vassilopoulou S. Unusual 
presentation of thoracic disc herniation. Br J Neurosurg. 2018 Apr 24:1-2. doi:
10.1080/02688697.2018.1466996. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29688067.
)).