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Lumbar myxopapillary ependymoma mimicking neurofibroma
M Bavbek1, M N Altinörs, H H Caner
1Baskent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Spinal Cord
|August 21, 2001
Abstract
Objective:
To report a case of lumbar myxopapillary ependymoma in whom neuroradiological and surgical findings strongly suggested neurofibroma.
Clinical Presentation:
The patient presented with a 2 year history of progressive monoparesthesia and monoparesia of his right leg. He reported having minimal fecal and urinary incontinence.
Intervention:
Total resection of the tumor was achieved by total L1-L2 laminectomies. There was no attachment to the spinal cord and dura.
Conclusion:
In spite of contemporary sophisticated neuroradiological facilities, we may still have diagnostic difficulties in some spinal tumors.