title: Hereditary multiple exostoses with myelopathy.
abstract: A 58-year-old woman with hereditary multiple exostoses had slowly progressive myelopathy due to a vertebral exostosis that compressed the spinal cord at T1-2. She did not show skeletal deformities, but had numerous palpable long-bone exostoses. While CNS complications are rare in hereditary multiple exostosis, 17 other cases have been reported.
mesh_terms: D005097:Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000209:etiology*