title: Schwannoma presenting as lumbar disc disease in an adolescent boy.
abstract: Lumbar disc disease and spinal cord tumors occur relatively rarely in the pediatric age group. We report on a 16-year-old boy who presented with signs and symptoms of lumbar disc disease that failed to respond to conservative treatment. He was diagnosed preoperatively to have schwannoma of the S-1 root.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007403:Intervertebral Disc; D007796:Laminectomy; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008297:Male; D009192:Myelography; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013126:Spinal Nerve Roots; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed