title: Long-term results of surgical treatment of spinal lipomas. Report of 18 cases.
abstract: We report the long-term results of surgery on spinal lipomas in a series of 18 patients. Four patients had congenital lipomas with spina bifida and/or myelomeningocele and the other fourteen had tumoural (true) lipomas. Simple decompression or subtotal removal afforded a very good prognosis in all patients with intradural lipomas whose preoperative neurological deficits were slight. In the light of the long follow-up, the lack of difference in biological behaviour between congenital and tumoural (true) lipomas leads us to regard the two types as a single maldevelopment entity of dysembryogenetic origin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Sciences, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lunardi
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Missori
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ferrante
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fortuna
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008067:Lipoma / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*