A 59-year-old man with sacral chordoma had several resections of locally recurring disease during a 6-year period following diagnosis. The present hospital admission of the patient, now 65, was prompted by several weeks of pain in the right buttock and progressive difficulty in walking. A tender soft-tissue mass in the right buttock area, weakness and muscle atrophy of both lower extremities, a...

Epidermoid cyst is generally regarded as congenital disease, and commonly related to other congenital spinal anomalies. However, it also develops iatrogenically. We report one rare case of epidermoid cyst that we experineced among intradural extramedullary tumors. A 21-year-old female patient was admitted to the hospital due to low back pain with radiating pain into a right lower extremity that...

Intradural spinal metastasis is rare. This is the third case ever reported on the finding of intradural spinal metastasis from a renal cell carcinoma that had been removed surgically. The patient had a history of epidural metastasis for which excision and anterior stabilization were done 3 years before the new presentation with cauda equina lesion. Seeding from the involved osseous structure to...

Intradural spinal cord abscesses especially in the cervical spine are a rare occurrence. We report a rare presentation of an intradural extramedullary abscess at the atlantoaxial level, initially misdiagnosed as an epidural collection. The patient presented with worsening quadriparesis preceded by a 2-week history of upper respiratory tract infection and neck pain. Magnetic resonance imaging sh...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case series. PURPOSE The objectives of this study were to determine and discuss the surgical planning of patients who underwent operations following diagnoses of thoracal and lumbar spinal schwannomas. We also aimed to discuss the application of unilateral hemilaminectomy for the microsurgery of schwannomas. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Schwannomas are located in differ...

El bloqueo espinal alto es una de las complicaciones más graves que pueden suceder durante la anestesia neuroaxial cesárea. Una sus causas el rescate epidural fallida mediante intradural. Puede derivar en hemodinámicas y respiratorias por lo primordial reconocimiento tratamiento precoz para mejorar pronóstico. Para evitar un al utilizar intradural tras administrar bolo epidural, se debe esperar...

Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma (EES) involving the central nervous system is rare, but can be diagnosed and distinguished from other primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET) by identification of the chromosomal translocation (11;22)(q24;q12). We report EES arising from the spinal intradural extramedullary space, based on imaging, histopathological, and molecular data in two men, ages 50 and 60 yea...