Mild gait abnormality and leg discomfort in a child secondary to extradural ganglioneuroma.
Ganglioneuromas are benign and slow-growing tumors that most commonly originate from the sympathetic trunk. Ganglioneuromas often decrease in size and rarely require reoperation. Changes in gait or the onset of limb pain without a discernible local cause are indications for investigation of patients for possible intraspinal pathology. We report the case of a 5-year-old boy who presented with seemingly static symptoms, while the slow-growing tumor had enveloped nerve roots and caused bone destruction of the vertebrae.
Skaggs
D L
DL
Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Roberts
J M
JM
Codsi
M J
MJ
Meyer
B C
BC
Moral
L A
LA
Masso
P D
PD
D001706:Biopsy; D002648:Child; D018450:Disease Progression; D015174:Epidural Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005684:Gait; D005728:Ganglia, Sympathetic; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D013123:Spinal Fusion; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed