[Does the neurologic assessment have a decisive role in the early diagnosis of urinary disorders of uncertain etiology? A case of spinal chordoma].
The Authors report a rare case of detrusor areflexia due to a sacral column chordoma characterized as initial symptomatology, by dysuria and recurrent urinary tract infections. The patient was treated for a long time in a symptomatic way by her physicians. The Authors while discussing the case, underline the importance of an accurate differential diagnostical framing in patients with voiding and/or anorectal dysfunctions of uncertain nature. This framing must exclude those voiding pathologies of neurological origin which are frequently evinced merely by an aspecific voiding symptomatology of dysuric or irritative nature.
Carbone
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Dipartimento di Urologia, Policlinico Umberto I, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma, Italia.
Gezeroglu
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Ciccariello
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Aloisi
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Martis
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D000368:Aged; D002817:Chordoma / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*