title: Dumb-bell ganglioneuroma of the spine misinterpreted as progressive idiopathic scoliosis. Case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Griss
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lütcke
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Maroske
authors.forename: H D
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Mennel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Unsicker
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D002395:Catecholamines