Thoracic Meningioma In Combination With Severe Lumbar Spinal Stenosis Presenting With Atypical Neurological Deficit

We report on a case of a 47-year-old female patient with a long history of low back pain irradiating bilaterally to the legs. Twenty days before admission to our clinic, she had developed progressive weakness in the legs, more pronounced on the left side. The initial neurological examination reveale...

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Main Authors: Kehayov Ivo I., Raykov Stephan D., Hubavenska Iveta N., Davarski Atanas N., Kitova Tanya T., Zhelyazkov Christo B., Kitov Borislav D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2015-03-01
Series:Folia Medica
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Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/folmed.2015.57.issue-1/folmed-2015-0022/folmed-2015-0022.xml?format=INT
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Summary:We report on a case of a 47-year-old female patient with a long history of low back pain irradiating bilaterally to the legs. Twenty days before admission to our clinic, she had developed progressive weakness in the legs, more pronounced on the left side. The initial neurological examination revealed signs of damage to both the cauda equina and the spinal cord. The neuroimaging studies (computed tomography, myelography and magnetic-resonance tomography) found spinal stenosis most severe at L4-L5 level, and right lateral thoracic intradural-extramedullary tumor at T9-T10 level.
ISSN:1314-2143