PROXIMAL SCIATIC NEUROPATHY SECONDARY TO HAMSTRING TENDON AVULSION
Ideggyogyaszati Szemle, cilt.75, sa.11-12, ss.429-432, 2022 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 75 Sayı: 11-12
- Basım Tarihi: 2022
- Doi Numarası: 10.18071/isz.75.0429
- Dergi Adı: Ideggyogyaszati Szemle
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, EMBASE
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.429-432
- Anahtar Kelimeler: avulsion, hamstring muscles, motorcycle accident, sciatic neuropathy
- Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
We herein present the exceptional case of a patient, who injured a sciatic nerve due to avulsion of proximal hamstring tendon in a motorcycle accident. The 63-year-old man was diagnosed firstly with an incomplete fracture of distal femur. A foot drop on the right side was observed when the full-length cast was removed two months later. The patient was referred to the neurology clinic and was diagnosed with a sciatic nerve lesion at the proximal level of the biceps femoris. Magnetic resonance imaging of the thigh showed a proximal avulsion of hamstring muscles tendon. The patient did not improve by short-term physiotherapy and neurosurgical intervention. Sciatic nerve injury can be a result of proximal hamstring avulsion in events such as motorcycle accidents even in the absence of complete or major femur fracture.