Abstract

Mohammed Ahamed Ahamed Abuelnour* and Mohammed Ibrahim Ahmed Mohammed

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to show data and evaluate the distribution of the intervertebral disc herniation by level, degree of herniation’s, age and gender in Sudanese patients using Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI). This is observational Descriptive Cross-sectional Multicenter hospital based study, conducted in the period between July to September 2015. 100 MRI images (61 males and 39 females) , which were diagnosed with intervertebral disc herniation’s and available at time of the study and fulfilling the inclusion criteria were used and examined for the prevalence, and distribution of the intervertebral disc herniation’s. The results show that the level of the L5/S1 was the commonest site for disc herniation’s (46.3%), followed by L4/L5 (34.8%). Cervical region disc prolapse constitute 1.3% at the region of C4/C5 and 3.5% between C5/C6 respectively. However, studying of the degree and site of the prolapse intervertebral disk (PID) revealed that 66.3% of the patients suffering from major type of disc and 33.7 % of the patients complaining of minor degree of intervertebral disc prolapse. Of the prolapsed intervertebral disc (52.6 %) of the cases herniated central in the spinal canal and (47.4 %) were herniate laterally. The males representing high prevalence of (PID) (61.2) compared with females (38.8). Conclusion: This is the first study focusing and reporting the prevalence, distribution, types, and degree of intervertebral disc prolapse in Sudanese. It will improve the knowledge on prevalence of intervertebral disc, and it will provide data that could help in diagnosis and management of prolapse intervertebral disc.