Intraspinal extension of an air cyst of the lung: case report.
We report the diagnostic evaluation and treatment of a cystic paraspinal and epidural lesion originally thought to be a neurofibroma or an arachnoid cyst. Intraoperatively, the lesion was found to be an air cyst of the lung that was successfully ligated.
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Division of Neurosurgery, New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, New York.
Gamache
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Weingarten
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Haimes
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D000328:Adult; D003560:Cysts / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed