Abordaje diagnostico del sindrome de cauda equina

Abstract

The cauda equina is a group of confluent roots of the thoracic and lumbar nerves, its location is given between l1 and l5, its main function is motor and sensory enervation of the lower limbs, bladder, perineum and anus. The "tail of the horse" or "cauda equina" syndrome is an emerging pathology of surgical correction, its approach must be immediate, because it can produce permanent sequelae in patients. Its diagnosis is clinical and by images, an insidious clinical history must be carried out, to discover surgical and pathological pathological antecedents that can produce spinal cord compression. Low back pain, accompanied by warning signs or red flags and an imaging study showing spinal cord compression, leads to the diagnosis of cauda equina and cauda equina syndrome.