Case Report of Spinal Cord Astrocytoma Presenting with Extensive Spinal Vertebral Body Destruction

BACKGROUND: Spinal cord astrocytomas are rare lesions in adults. CASE DESCRIPTION: In this report, we present the case of a 28-year-old female patient who presented with a 2-year history of back pain and 3-month history of leg weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging of the patient showed an intrinsic e...

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Autores principales: Tadele, Abraham, Woodraw, Sarah, Johnson, Mahlon D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31218290
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wnsx.2019.100016
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description BACKGROUND: Spinal cord astrocytomas are rare lesions in adults. CASE DESCRIPTION: In this report, we present the case of a 28-year-old female patient who presented with a 2-year history of back pain and 3-month history of leg weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging of the patient showed an intrinsic expansive spinal cord lesion with extensive vertebral body destruction. Open biopsy from the tumor with limited debulking confirmed World Health Organization grade II astrocytoma. Postoperatively, the patient had mild improvement in neurologic status. CONCLUSIONS: This case represents a rare presentation of a spinal cord astrocytoma with extensive erosion of the vertebral body.
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spelling pubmed-65808952019-06-19 Case Report of Spinal Cord Astrocytoma Presenting with Extensive Spinal Vertebral Body Destruction Tadele, Abraham Woodraw, Sarah Johnson, Mahlon D. World Neurosurg X Case Report BACKGROUND: Spinal cord astrocytomas are rare lesions in adults. CASE DESCRIPTION: In this report, we present the case of a 28-year-old female patient who presented with a 2-year history of back pain and 3-month history of leg weakness. Magnetic resonance imaging of the patient showed an intrinsic expansive spinal cord lesion with extensive vertebral body destruction. Open biopsy from the tumor with limited debulking confirmed World Health Organization grade II astrocytoma. Postoperatively, the patient had mild improvement in neurologic status. CONCLUSIONS: This case represents a rare presentation of a spinal cord astrocytoma with extensive erosion of the vertebral body. Elsevier 2019-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6580895/ /pubmed/31218290 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wnsx.2019.100016 Text en © 2019 The Author(s) 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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