Diseases

Cauda Equina Syndrome

Compressive lesion affecting the nerve roots of the CAUDA EQUINA (e.g., compression, herniation, inflammation, rupture, or stenosis), which controls the function of the bladder and bowel. Symptoms may include neurological dysfunction of bladder or bowels, loss of sexual sensation and altered sensation or paralysis in the lower extremities.

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Compressive lesion affecting the nerve roots of the CAUDA EQUINA (e.g., compression, herniation, inflammation, rupture, or stenosis), which controls the function of the bladder and bowel. Symptoms may include neurological dysfunction of bladder or bowels, loss of sexual sensation and altered sensation or paralysis in the lower extremities.

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  • Cauda Equina Syndromes

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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2019; use Polyradiculopathy 2010-2018

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Cauda Equina Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000077684. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000077684
  2. Cauda Equina Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauda_equina_syndrome
  3. Cauda Equina Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1051436