Epidural gas-containing pseudocyst leading to lumbar radiculopathy: A case report

Background null Lumbar radiculopathy is a common symptom in the clinic and is often caused by lumbar disc herniation or osteophytes compressing the nerve root; however, it is rare for nerve roots to be compressed by epidural gas. Few symptomatic epidural gas-containing pseudocyst cases have been reported. Furthermore, the reported cases were due to a mix of gas and obvious osteophytes; therefore, it was hard to rigorously conclude that gas was...