Dumb-bell ganglioneuroma of the spine misinterpreted as progressive idiopathic scoliosis. Case report.
A giant ganglioneuroma generating a progressive scoliosis in a 16-year-old girl is presented. The interval between the start of the orthopaedic treatment and the diagnosis of the true nature of the disease was more than 4 years, thus allowing the development of a giant partly intracanalicularly partly retroperitonealy expanding tumor mass. The report emphasizes and describes the combined neurosurgical, general surgical and orthopaedic surgical treatment and presents the results of light- and electron microsopical, immunohistochemical and quantitative neurochemical investigations of the resected tumor.
Bauer
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Department of Neurosurgery, University of Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Bauer
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Griss
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Lütcke
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Maroske
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Mennel
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Unsicker
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D000293:Adolescent; D002395:Catecholamines / Q000032:analysis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D011859:Radiography; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000648:ultrastructure
D002395:Catecholamines