Cavernous hemangioma in the spine is rare, and occurrence of intradural extramedullary cavernous particularly infrequent. A 57-year-old male patient visited emergency room with suddenly worsening neurological symptoms. Computed tomography at T10-11 levels showed a round isodense mass lesion, magnetic resonance imaging 1.2-cm oval mass. Therefore, diagnosis an tumor was suspected. Active subdura...

background: spinal cord injury (sci) is a major clinical condition and research is commonly done to find suitable treatment options. however, there are some degrees of spontaneous recovery after sci and gender is said to be a contributing factor in recovery, but this is controversial. this study was done to compare the effects of sexual dimorphism on spontaneous recovery after spinal cord injur...

BACKGROUND In the treatment of spinal cord tumors, complete tumor resection with complete reconstruction of the spine represents the ideal goal. However, for the treatment of heavily calcified spinal meningioma, en-bloc resection of the tumor together with the involved dura at the tumor base through laminectomy is quite difficult. Conventional laminectomy is not wide enough to allow full exposu...

PNETs of the spinal cord are aggressive and local recurrence and/or leptomeningeal spread is common. Primary spinal PNETs are extremely rare and most cases involving the spinal cord are drop metastases from primary intracranial tumors by cerebrospinal fluid. Herewith, we present a 40-day-old infant with multilevel primary spinal PNET at Th12-L1 and L5-S1 levels associated with hydrocephalus occ...

Objective. Primary intramedullary spinal germ cell tumors are exceedingly rare. As such, there are no established treatment paradigms. We describe our management for spinal germ cell tumors and a review of the literature. Clinical Presentation. We describe the case of a 45-year-old man with progressive lower extremity weakness and sensory deficits. He was found to have enhancing intramedullary ...

Surgery for spinal intramedullary tumors remains one of the major challenges for neurosurgeons, due to their relative infrequency, unknown natural history, and surgical difficulty. We are sure that safe and precise resection of spinal intramedullary tumors, particularly encapsulated benign tumors, can result in acceptable or satisfactory postoperative outcomes. General surgical concepts and str...

Demyelinating lesions of the brain have been frequently reported to mimic tumors, whereas very few cases of tumefactive demyelination of the spine have been reported. We report a patient with tumefactive demyelination of the spinal cord who was clinically, by MRI, and by frozen section diagnosed with tumor and had complete surgical resection. Hence patients with spinal cord lesions suspicious o...

We analyzed IR thermographies of 137 spinal cord tumor patients. Thermography (+) with level correlation was 67.8%, symptom correlation was found 28.8% with local pain, 81.1% with radiculopathy. Myelopathy (+) thermography was 71.9% in cervical level, 61.5 % in thoracic, 75.6% with para(quadri)paresis and over 100% with Brown-Sequard syndrome. For the extradural or IDEM tumors, thermography rep...

The medical records of 154 children with solid malignant primary tumors outside the central nervous system were retrospectively reviewed to achieve a better understanding of the incidence, presentation, outcome and treatment options for metastatic spinal cord disease. Of the 154 total, 12 children had symptomatic and 5 had asymptomatic spinal metastases (total 17 cases; 11%). In eight cases, th...