Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report

Intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT) are a rare subset of neoplasms classified based on anatomical location. The most common presenting symptom is pain; however, the high prevalence of back pain in the general public secondary to common causes including degenerative disc disease or osteoarthrit...

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Autores principales: Atoot, Ali, Ha, Christine, Abul-Huda, Motasem, Kaawar, Fawzi, Atoot, Adam, Sen, Surjya, Panagiotakis, Gary, Schlesinger, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Pain Management
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8741527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35018269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20277
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author Atoot, Ali
Ha, Christine
Abul-Huda, Motasem
Kaawar, Fawzi
Atoot, Adam
Sen, Surjya
Panagiotakis, Gary
Schlesinger, Mark
author_facet Atoot, Ali
Ha, Christine
Abul-Huda, Motasem
Kaawar, Fawzi
Atoot, Adam
Sen, Surjya
Panagiotakis, Gary
Schlesinger, Mark
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description Intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT) are a rare subset of neoplasms classified based on anatomical location. The most common presenting symptom is pain; however, the high prevalence of back pain in the general public secondary to common causes including degenerative disc disease or osteoarthritis, makes diagnosing spinal cord tumors a challenge. We present a case of a 43-year-old male with a cervical intramedullary ependymoma to discuss the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of these spinal tumors.
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spelling pubmed-87415272022-01-10 Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report Atoot, Ali Ha, Christine Abul-Huda, Motasem Kaawar, Fawzi Atoot, Adam Sen, Surjya Panagiotakis, Gary Schlesinger, Mark Cureus Pain Management Intramedullary spinal cord tumors (IMSCT) are a rare subset of neoplasms classified based on anatomical location. The most common presenting symptom is pain; however, the high prevalence of back pain in the general public secondary to common causes including degenerative disc disease or osteoarthritis, makes diagnosing spinal cord tumors a challenge. We present a case of a 43-year-old male with a cervical intramedullary ependymoma to discuss the clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of these spinal tumors. Cureus 2021-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC8741527/ /pubmed/35018269 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20277 Text en Copyright © 2021, Atoot et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Atoot, Ali
Ha, Christine
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Kaawar, Fawzi
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Sen, Surjya
Panagiotakis, Gary
Schlesinger, Mark
Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report
title Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report
title_full Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report
title_fullStr Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report
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title_short Chronic Pain Secondary to a Cervical Intramedullary Ependymoma: A Case Report
title_sort chronic pain secondary to a cervical intramedullary ependymoma: a case report
topic Pain Management
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8741527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35018269
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20277
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