[Persistent nerve root compression symptoms following lumbar intervertebral disk operation caused by spinal neurofibrosarcoma].
Case history of a woman who was operated on a lumbar disc. After a mild improvement again radicular pain and neurological deterioration occurred and a second operation on a recurrence was performed. Intraoperatively a malignant tumour (neurofibrosarcoma) within the root sheath reaching into the pelvis was found. In spite of laparatomy and radiotherapy this patient died five months later.
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Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik Kiel.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007405:Intervertebral Disc Displacement / Q000601:surgery*; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012086:Reoperation; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
Persistierende Nervenwurzelkompressionssymptomatik nach lumbaler Bandscheibenoperation durch spinales Neurofibrosarkom.