Chapter 1.4 – Articles from the late 20th century about low back pain

This is a chronologic list from 12 articles about or related to “back mice” from the late of the 20th century

  1. →1970 Carninci & Campailla (From Italy): I lipomi episacroiliaci
  2. →1972 Pace and Henning (from California, US): Episacroiliac lipoma
  3. →1978 Faille (Washington, US): Low Back pain and lumbar fat herniation
  4. →1981 Tong (From China): Pannicular sacroiliac hernia.
  5. →1982 Ercegovac (From Serbia): Xanthoadipose nodules in the sacroiliac region and their clinical importance. Lumbar and sciatic pain. 
  6. →1990 Grieve (from England): Episacroiliac lipoma
  7. →1990 Rosati (from Firenze, Italy): Il rulo dei lipomi episacroiliaci come causa di sindromi pseudolombosciatalgiche
  8. →1991 Collée et al. (Leiden, Netherlands): Iliac Crest Pain Syndrome in Low Back Pain.
  9. →1991 Swezey (California, USA): Non-fibrositic lumbar subcutaneous nodules: prevalance and clinical significance
  10. →1993 Curtis (from North Carolina, US):  In search of the “Back Mouse”
  11. →1993 Fisher and Gravesen (from US): Back mouse
  12. →1995 Earl et al. (from Johnson City, US): “Back mice: a prevalence study”

 

episacroiliac lipoma symptoms
Article published in 1970. Authors: Carninci and Campilla. Titled: I LIPOMI EPISACROILIACI. It presents a short literature review about the episacroiliac lipoma symptoms (about back mice) and etiopathogenic characteristics and 4 case reports. Carninci and Campailla present just 4 medical case reports that they operate on, with resolution of the painful patients (some of the patients presented NON-PAINFUL nodules). They removed surgically silent and painful nodules that microscopically were reported as lipomas (and presented not pathological findings that differ from each other).

 

Nodules in the sacroiliac region
Article published in 1982. Authors Ercegovac et al. Titled XANTHOADIPOSE NODULES IN THE SACROILIAC REGION AND THEIR CLINICAL IMPORTANCE LUMBAR AND SCIATIC PAIN. This is a very interesting SERBIAN paper about the nodules in the sacroiliac region (also named back mice) from a doctor that discovered by exploring himself, first thinking that they were synovial cysts, later they discovered they were of fat nature.

 

sacroiliac sulcus lipoma
ARTICLE published in 1990. Author Grieve. Titled Episacroiliac lipoma. He warns that however careful spinal mobilization techniques of various types can be, there are occasions where the therapist is shooting at the wrong target, then results can be disappointing and puzzling, and blame may be shifted to the patient. An awareness of how misleading these lipomas can be, and how quickly a single injection can resolve the problem, might reduce the frequency of these misleading cases. He presents 2 case reports.

 

lipomi episacroiliaci
Article from 1990 written in Italian about lipomi episacroiliaci. They presented 21 cases that they successfully resolved by surgical excision. The authors want to remember the EXISTENCE of these lipomas related to low back pain syndromes that seem to have been neglected in the past 50 years.

 

lumbar subcutaneous nodules
ARTICLE published in 1991. Author Swezey. Titled NON-FIBROSITIC LUMBAR SUBCUTANEOUS NODULES: PREVALENCE AND CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE. SWEZEY ADMITS the lumbar subcutaneous NODULES EXIST, BUT HE THINKS THEY ARE NOT A CAUSE OF LOW BACK PAIN or fibromialgia syndrome.

 

back mouse
Letters to the editor from 1993. Authors Fischer and Gravesen. Titled BACK MOUSE. These are two short letters titled back mouse published in The Journal of Family Practice in 1993, in response to the article of Peter Curtis “In the search of ‘Back Mouse'”.