A Case of Cervical Spondylosis presenting Meralgia Paresthetica-Like Symptoms

Abstract

A 42-year-old man suffering from not only meralgia paresthetica-like symptom at bilateral thigh for 8 months but paraparesis after lumbar surgery for L5/S disc hernaition was admitted to our hospital. MRI and CT scan revealed an anterior cervical spinal cord compression at C5/6 level by a horn-like osteophyte in addition to the disc herniation at the same level. The patient was successfully treated by an anterior decompression for the cervical disease to be free of both meralgia-like paresthesia and paraparesis.