Introduction: Phantom pain, described by French military surgeon Ambrois Pare in 17 century, is defined as the pain of the amputee limb. Lumbar disc hernia is most common cause of radicular pain, and effects 1% of population every year. Less than 20 case of phantom radicular pain are reported in literature until today. In our study, we present a case about 75-year-old man who is right leg amputeted 7 years ago suffer from phantom radicular pain because of right L3-L4 disc hernia.
Results: 75 years old man who is operated left L5-S1 disc hernia about 10 year ago and amputeted right leg 7 years ago due to thromboangiitis obliterans, suffered from low back pain, and right leg pain. Right paracentral extrude disc hernia detected in his magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). We offered him surgical treatment. Right L3 hemipartiallaminectomy + L3-L4 microdiscectomy and right L4 foraminatomy was performed. After the operation, patient’s right leg phantom radicular pain was over.
Conclusions: Previous studies enounce that lomber degenerative diseases are caused from abnormal walking posture of limb amputeted patitents. When we observed incipient phantom pain with limb amputeted cases, lumbar degenerative disesase should be kept in mind.
Patient Care: When we observed incipient phantom pain with limb amputeted cases, lumbar degenerative disesase should be kept in mind.
Learning Objectives: phantom radiculopathy