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What Does Numbness On The Left Side Of The Back Indicate?

A condition in which a patient loses all sense of feeling in the left side of the back, below the upper limb, and extending in a band around to the chest, also below the upper limb, but where all sensation on the right is normal, suggests that the patient’s dorsal roots have been damaged on the left side adjacent to the part of the spinal cord supplying that part of the body
Wed, 11 Jul 2018
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Welcome ' Ask a doctor ' service .
I have reviewed your query and here is my suggestion .
It is involvement of sensory roots or spinal cord unilateral pathology .
I will suggest that you should undergo MRI thoracic spine .
I hope I have solved your query .
Let me know if I can assist you further in this query .
With regards dr varinder joshi .
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What Does Numbness On The Left Side Of The Back Indicate?

Welcome Ask a doctor service . I have reviewed your query and here is my suggestion . It is involvement of sensory roots or spinal cord unilateral pathology . I will suggest that you should undergo MRI thoracic spine . I hope I have solved your query . Let me know if I can assist you further in this query . With regards dr varinder joshi .