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Spinal tumour due to primary hyperparathyroidism causing sciatica: case report
M Motateanu1, J P Déruaz, H Fankhauser
1Department of Radiology, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland.
Neuroradiology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report a unilateral intraspinal cyst-like lesion adjacent to the lamina and facet joint at the L4-L5 level producing sciatica. Histological examination revealed multinucleate giant cells suggesting a brown tumour. Further studies disclosed primary hyperparathyroidism, whose first manifestation was the lumbar nerve root compression. Previous cases of compression of neural structures by spinal brown tumours are reviewed and a radiological differential diagnosis is presented.