Disc herniation is a frequent pathology in the radiologist’s daily practice. There are different pathologiesthat can simulate a herniated disc from the clinical and especially the imaging point of view that we shouldconsider whenever we report a herniated disc. These lesions may originate from the vertebral body (osteophytes and metastases), the intervertebral disc (discal cyst), the intervertebral foramina (neurinomas),the interapophyseal joints (synovial cyst) and from the epidural space (hematoma and epidural abscess).
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