Intramedullary Spinal Cord Tumors and Pseudotumors. How to Deal With?
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Surgery is the best treatment to offer patients with an intramedullary spinal cord tumor. In experienced hands, radical surgery can be performed with acceptable surgical risks in most ependymomas, hemangioblastomas, and cavernomas and in 40% of astrocytomas. However, some inflammatory lesions may mimic an intramedullary tumor. That is the reason why, one should pay attention to spinal cord morphology on MRI to avoid unnecessary surgery on pseudotumors that may benefit from a medical treatment.
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