Table 2 Differences in clinical symptoms and duration in patients with and without Parkinson’s disease.

From: Clinical and imaging features of surgically treated low lumbar osteoporotic vertebral collapse in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Item

PD patients (n = 11)

Non-PD patients (n = 32)

p

Symptom

 Low back pain

10 (90.9%)

26 (81.3%)

0.45

 Radicular pain

3 (27.3%)

22 (68.8%)

0.016*

 Cauda equina sign

8 (72.7%)

8 (25.0%)

0.0047*

Duration (days)†

24.5 ± 10.5

58.5 ± 33.4

 < 0.01*

  1. †Duration from diagnosis of compression fracture to that of burst fracture and/or appearance of neurological symptoms.
  2. PD Parkinson disease.
  3. *p < 0.05.
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