A male patient presents with urinary incontinence worsening in the last year, shock sensation, symmetrical weakness and involuntary spasms lower limbs. He currently required double support to ambulate had no sphincter control. Neurological examination demonstrated limb hypertonia spastic paraplegia severe impairment of deep sensation painful muscle spasms. The normal body mass index laboratory ...

Although lipomas are encapsulated benign tumors, systemic lipomatosis defines infiltrative nonencapsulated tumors resembling normal adipose tissue. Abdominal lipomatosis and intestinal lipomatosis are different clinicopathological entities with similar clinical symptoms. We describe here a case presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding from eroded submucosal lipoma at duodenum secondary t...

Purpose: The purpose of this meta-analysis was to summarize the evidence associations between obesity factors and spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) evaluate strength validity these associations. Methods: Electronic databases such as Wiley Online Library, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library were searched manual retrieval references, time limit from establishment database May 2020. Methodological qu...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT Symptomatic spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL), a rare cause of spinal cord compression, has most often been associated with exogenous steroid use. PURPOSE Identify four associations with SEL, correlate the associated groups with level of disease and compare treatment with outcome data in these groups. STUDY DESIGN/SETTING Case reports of three patients and analysis of 104...