Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain

A previously healthy male presented at age 5 years with recurrent abdominal pain that occurred diffusely. The pain was severe enough to cause episodic screaming, especially at night with spontaneous resolution. The patient was initially treated for constipation but when motor symptoms began to devel...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Kasey, Lapsia, Sameer, Strunc, Michael, Tye, Gary
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Pediatric
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2017.05.002
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description A previously healthy male presented at age 5 years with recurrent abdominal pain that occurred diffusely. The pain was severe enough to cause episodic screaming, especially at night with spontaneous resolution. The patient was initially treated for constipation but when motor symptoms began to develop, imaging revealed the cause of his pain to be a spinal cord mass. The tumor was treated with steroids, and biopsy confirmed a grade II spinal cord astrocytoma. We describe this unusual presentation of a pediatric spinal cord astrocytoma and review the literature.
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spelling pubmed-58266902018-02-27 Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain Jackson, Kasey Lapsia, Sameer Strunc, Michael Tye, Gary Radiol Case Rep Pediatric A previously healthy male presented at age 5 years with recurrent abdominal pain that occurred diffusely. The pain was severe enough to cause episodic screaming, especially at night with spontaneous resolution. The patient was initially treated for constipation but when motor symptoms began to develop, imaging revealed the cause of his pain to be a spinal cord mass. The tumor was treated with steroids, and biopsy confirmed a grade II spinal cord astrocytoma. We describe this unusual presentation of a pediatric spinal cord astrocytoma and review the literature. Elsevier 2017-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5826690/ /pubmed/29487669 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2017.05.002 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
title Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
title_full Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
title_fullStr Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
title_full_unstemmed Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
title_short Spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
title_sort spinal cord astrocytoma: a unique presentation of abdominal pain
topic Pediatric
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29487669
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2017.05.002
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