Lumbar
and/or sacral strain - sprain - trauma (muscle or ligament pathology…),
intervertebral herniated disc (lumbar radioculopathy), vertebral
fracture (compression...), osteoarthritis (disruption or degeneration
of a facet joint, intrevertebral disc degeneration), spondylosis,
spondylolisthesis, spina bifida, scoliosis, spinal stenosis, post
operative chronic pain (foreign body, multiple surgeries), poor
posture, sacroiliitis, spondylitis, Reiter's disease, rheumatoid
arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, polymyalgia, rheumatica, osteoporosis
(chronic steroids, hyperparathyroidism, lack of dietary calcium,
immobility), osteomalacia, osteoclerosis, obesity, prostatic disease
(prostatitis, prostate CA - mets), AAA (leak -rupture), neoplasms
(multiple myeloma, pancreatic CA, ovarian CA, uterine CA, renal
CA, Hodgkin's disease, lymphoma, metastases [breast, lung, prostate,
renal, thyroid ...]), gastrointestinal (pancreatitis, penetrating
- perforated DU, IBD, biliary colic), infectious (prostatitis, osteomyelitis
of the vertebrae - ?TB epidural abscess, meningitis, pyelonephritis,
intervertebral disc space infection, lower lobe pneumonia, PID,
herpes zoster - shingles, trochanteric bursitis, septic discitis,
influenza), SAH spinal hemorrhage or infarction, retropertioneal
hematoma (adrenal hemorrhage), renal colic, renal infact, endometriosis,
neurofibroma, cauda equina syndrome, MI, malingerer, psychogenic.
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