Spinal cord vasculitis presenting as a spinal cord tumor in a heroin addict. Case report.
Progressive quadriparesis in a heroin addict was diagnosed on the basis of clinical and myelographic findings as an intramedullary cervical spinal cord tumor. A biopsy of the enlarged cervical spinal cord showed myelomalacia, vasculitis, and many doubly refractile bodies in the parenchyma and vessel walls.
D000328:Adult; D001167:Arteritis / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006556:Heroin Dependence / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009192:Myelography; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology