Spinal adhesive arachnoiditis mimicking sarcoid myelitis with nodular dural enhancement: A case report
Grace Clark1, Elizabeth Silbermann2, Shannon Seals3
1School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, 97239, USA.
Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
|June 15, 2020
Abstract:
Spinal adhesive arachnoiditis (SAA) is a rare, but often devastating, cause of compressive myelopathy. We report a patient with SAA resulting in a longitudinally extensive T2-hyperintense spinal cord lesion with initial nodular pial and dural enhancement mimicking neurosarcoidosis. Neurologists should be aware of this entity, especially in patients who have pertinent risk factors, such as prior meningitis, spinal cord trauma, or surgery.
