====== Thoracic juxtafacet cyst ====== The lack of reports at the thoracic level has stimulated Lopes et al. to present a patient with compression of the 10th dorsal root ((Lopes NM, Aesse FF, Lopes DK. Compression of thoracic nerve root by a facet joint synovial cyst: case report. Surg Neurol. 1992 Nov;38(5):338-40. PubMed PMID: 1485209. ))