Thoracic Spinal Cord Glioblastoma Mimicking Epidural Abscess: Case Report and Literature Review
| Autor: | Zubair Ahammad, Victor Awuor, Rudy Marciano |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Epidural abscess Neurosurgery Infectious Disease epidural abscess law.invention Intramedullary rod 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine spinal cord tumor law Glioma glioma medicine intradural astrocytoma business.industry General Engineering glioblastoma Astrocytoma spinal cord medicine.disease Spinal cord Surgery medicine.anatomical_structure Spinal cord tumor Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Presentation (obstetrics) business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Glioblastoma intramedullary |
| Zdroj: | Cureus |
| ISSN: | 2168-8184 |
| Popis: | Spinal cord glioblastoma (SG) accounts for 1.5% of all spinal tumors and has a poor prognosis with survival ranging from 2 to 26 months from presentation. A 57-year-old male presented with one week of paraparesis and contrasted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of an epidural enhancing thoracic mass suspicious for an epidural abscess. Intraoperative and pathologic findings revealed SG. Spinal cord tumors can mimic epidural abscess on MRI. When planning to address extradural spinal pathologies, one should be cognizant of the potential for either isolated or concurrent intradural pathologies. When the epidural findings do not correlate with preoperative imaging, intraoperative ultrasound imaging can identify intradural pathologies without violating the dura. |
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