Occipital neuralgia secondary to exuberant callus formation. Case report.
The authors report the case of a 78-year-old woman suffering from right occipital neuralgia in whom computerized tomography and magnetic resonance images demonstrated an irregular bone mass in the C-2 vertebral body. This "bone tumor" happened to be an exuberant callus formation that arose as a result of a previous axis body fracture. The patient's occipital pain was immediately relieved after she underwent C2-3 root release.
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Neurosurgery Service, Clínica del Pilar, Barcelona, Spain.
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D000368:Aged; D002146:Bony Callus; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009437:Neuralgia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D009777:Occipital Bone; D011859:Radiography; D013116:Spinal Cord; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000150:complications