Case of the month: April 1998--30 year old male with perineal numbness.
A 30-year-old male presented with a 2 year progressive course of bowel and bladder dysfunction, mild leg weakness and sensory abnormalities in sacral dermatomes. MRI showed an intra-axial conus medullaris lesion which was excised and identified as a ganglioglioma. The case presents the typical clinical course and histopathology of this unusual lesion which carries a favorable prognosis after gross total removal. Preoperative neurological function in such patients is highly predictive of post-operative outcome.
Smith
S J
SJ
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Lownie
S P
SP
Duggal
N
N
Hammond
R R
RR
D000328:Adult; D018303:Ganglioglioma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010502:Perineum; D012678:Sensation Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery