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S Afr Med J. 1980 Apr 19;57(16):650-4.
Patients with pain or discomfort in the legs during exercise which is relieved by rest should not automatically be labelled as having intermittent claudication due to vascular insufficiency; the greatest imitator of this condition is radiculopathy associated with a narrow lumbar spinal canal. Problems involved in differentiating the neurogenic and vascular components in such cases are described on the basis of experience in the Department of Neurosurgery at Groote SChuur Hospital.
运动时腿部出现疼痛或不适，休息后缓解的患者，不应自动被诊断为因血管功能不全导致间歇性跛行；这种情况最容易混淆的是与腰椎管狭窄相关的神经根病。本文根据格罗特舒尔医院神经外科的经验，阐述了在此类病例中鉴别神经源性和血管性因素的相关问题。
