title: Solitary osteochondroma of T4 with thoracic cord compression.
abstract: A patient with a solitary osteochondroma of T4 presented with a five-year history of back pain and progressive paraparesis. Conventional and computed tomography delineated the tumor, which was totally removed via a thoracic laminectomy. Osteochondroma is an unusual cause of spinal cord compression.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002812:Chondroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed