title: Unusual causes of spinal foraminal widening.
abstract: Spinal neural foraminal widening is usually caused by benign lesions, most commonly neurofibromas. Rare lesions can also cause spinal neural foraminal widening. Computed tomography and/or MRI are the modalities of choice for studying the spinal foraminal widening. The present pictorial review describes six rare lesions, namely a lateral thoracic meningocele, a malignant fibrous histiocytoma, a tuberculous abscess, an osteoblastoma, a chondrosarcoma and a malignant tumour of the lung which caused spinal neural foraminal widening.
authors.affiliation: Department of CT and MRI, Larissa General Hospital, 1 Tsakalof Street, GR-412 21 Larissa, Greece.
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Zibis
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Markonis
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Karantanas
mesh_terms: D002813:Chondrosarcoma / Q000150:complications; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008588:Meningocele / Q000150:complications; D018215:Osteoblastoma / Q000150:complications; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014399:Tuberculosis, Spinal / Q000150:complications