Case Report

Ventral Longitudinal Intraspinal Fluid Collection in Patients with Cervical Disc Herniation: A Report of Two Cases

Table 1

List of published VLISFC cases.

Author (year)Patient age/sexRange of VLISFCCause of dural defects (level)Diagnosis

Rabin et al. (1998) [16]29/femaleEntire spineNot identifiedSIH
27/femaleC6-T3Not identifiedSIH
37/femaleC6-T2Not mentionedSIH
Kumar et al. (2007) [22]77/maleCervical to thoracic spineNot mentionedSS and CH
Holle et al. (2008) [18]59/maleC5-T6Thoracic disc herniation (T5-6)SS and CH
Kumar et al. (2009) [19]64/maleC3-T11Calcified disc (T7-8)SS and CH
Payer et al. (2010) [2]47/femaleCervical to thoracic spineCalcification (T4)SS and ALS
Driver-Dunckley et al. (2010) [23]54/maleC3-L1Past spinal injurySS
Schievink et al. (2011) [3]35/maleC6-T7Not mentionedSS and SIH
22/maleC2-T12Not mentionedSIH
54/femaleC6-T10Not mentionedSIH
63/maleT1-T7Not mentionedSIH
37/femaleC6-T11Not mentionedSIH
51/maleC3-L5Not mentionedSIH
15/maleC6-T7Not mentionedSIH
Cheng et al. (2011) [4]53/maleC7-T4Multilobulated arachnoid cystSS
Deluca et al. (2011) [8]48/maleC2-L4Unknown (T12-L1)SS
40/maleC3-L1Unknown (T11-12)SS
32/maleC2-T12Not mentionedSS
Boncoraglio et al. (2012) [9]69/maleC2-T9Spinal cord herniation (T6-T7)SS and spinal cord herniation
Kumar et al. (2012) [24]58/maleCervical to lumbosacral spineCalcified disc (T2-3)SS and CH
Egawa et al. (2013) [13]67/maleC2-T8Unknown (T2-3)SS
54/maleC7-T8Unknown (T1-2)SS
Toro et al. (2014) [5]66/maleT3-T8Thoracic disc herniation (T8-9)SS
Arishima et al. (2017) [14]50/maleC2-T12Unknown (T7-8)SS
59/maleC2-T12Unknown (C7)SS
Takai et al. (2017) [15]58/maleCervical to thoracic spineUnknown (T3)SS

SIH: spontaneous intracranial hypotension; SS: superficial siderosis; CH: craniospinal hypovolemia; ALS: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.