Left somatosensory cortex tumor presented with radicular hand pain and paresthesia.

نویسندگان

  • Mahmoudreza Khalatbari
  • Hosein Ghalenoui
  • Seyyed-Taha Yahyavi
  • Hamid Borghei-Razavi
چکیده

Concurrent lesions in the brain and spinal cord, which can produce similar symptoms are truly confusing situations. Herein, we report on a 56-year-old woman who suffered from an intermittent radicular pain and paresthesia in her right upper limb and mild headache. Imaging showed a cervical vertebral disc herniation and a small round tumor of the somatosensory cortex with clear border, considered as a little meningioma, which could be followed. To deal with these two concurrent lesions, we faced a challenging condition.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Archives of Iranian medicine

دوره 11 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008