title: Foreign body granuloma mimicking a benign intraspinal tumour.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, University of Technology (RWTH), Aachen, Germany. veit@rohde.ac.uunet.de
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rohde
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Küker
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Gilsbach
mesh_terms: 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