Foreign body granuloma mimicking a benign intraspinal tumour.
We describe the case of an intraspinal foreign body granuloma that became symptomatic 23 years after a lumbar discectomy. Preoperatively, the foreign body granuloma was misdiagnosed as spinal neurinoma.
Rohde
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Department of Neurosurgery, University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany. veit@rohde.ac.uunet.de
Küker
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Gilsbach
J M
JM
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015745:Granuloma, Foreign-Body / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed