Intramedullary cervical spinal cord abscess: a case report
| Autor: | C. Mascari, Luigi Simonetti, Marco Leonardi, M. Maffei, C. Trocino, S. Battaglia |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Maffei M., Simonetti L., Battaglia S., Mascari C., Trocino C., Leonardi M. |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) medicine.disease Cervical spine law.invention Surgery Lesion Intramedullary rod Pharmacotherapy Hemiparesis law medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Neurology (clinical) Radiology medicine.symptom business Abscess Meningitis |
| Popis: | Intramedullary abscesses are uncommon with a prevalent incidence in childhood and adolescence. Prognosis is not always favourable. Management entails a combined surgical and medical approach with long-term drug therapy. We describe a patient with rapidly progressive hemiparesis and MR findings of an undefined intramedullary expanding lesion in the cervical spine. Rapid evolution of clinical symptoms, and brain MR disclosing meningitis suggested an abscess, subsequently confirmed by histological analysis. |
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