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İdris Sertbaş1, Mete Karatay2, Uguray Payam Hacisalihoğlu3
1Department of Neurosurgery, Yeni Yüzyıl University Medical Faculty, Merkez Mahallesi,Çukurçeşme Caddesi No:51, Gaziosmanpaşa, İstanbul, Turkey. idris.sertbas@yeniyuzyil.edu.tr.
Background:
Giant cell tumors (GCTs) of the bone are locally aggressive primary bone tumors with a benign character. Spinal involvement is rare and they are quite rare in the cervical spine.
Case Presentation:
A 31-year-old male patient presented with neck pain. Cervical CT revealed a lytic lesion extending posteriorly and causing the collapse of the C4 vertebra corpus. The patient underwent excision of the tumor extending from the anterior to the posterior with a single-stage anterior intervention followed by the placement of an anterior cage and plate-screw system for fusion. The pathology was reported as GCT.
Conclusions:
The posteriorly located lesion was widely curetted through an anterior approach in a single session.
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