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|Cauda Equina
A patient presenting with acute low back pain with a suggestion of a disturbance of their bladder or bowel function and/or saddle sensory disturbance
should be suspected of having CES
The cauda starts at L2 and contains LMN motor from lower lumbar and sacral roots and sphincters and afferent sensory from perianal and saddle areas. It lies below the cord which ends lower L1. There are no UMN signs unless the cord is also involved higher up which may suggest multiple lesions or If the lesion is at the filum terminale. The commonest cause of difficulties in passing urine in patients with lumbar degenerative disorders is pain and not a cauda equina syndrome but that does not exclude a cauda equina syndrome
Anatomy
Anatomy with vertebrae
Anatomy with central disc compression of cauda
About
Aetiology
Clinical
Patients at high risk of CES
Investigations
THe four stages of CES
Outcomes from Imaging
Management
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