title: Giant-cell tumour of the lumbar spine. Case report.
abstract: Giant-cell tumours of the spine are very rare. They occur mainly in long bones. We report a patient with a giant-cell tumour of the lumbar spine which had been operated on at another hospital 5 months previously as a protruded lumbar intervertebral disc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Inci
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akbay
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bertan
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005870:Giant Cell Tumors / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery