Transverse syndrome as the dominant feature of solitary cervical plasmocytoma with dissemination.
METHODS
A case report of transverse syndrome secondary to compression from an intravertebral plasmocytoma.


OBJECTIVE
To report a rare case of cervical cord compression.


METHODS
Vienna, Austria.


METHODS
A 47-year-old man presented with pain over the left scapula and subsequent development of pain and sensory disturbance. Investigations showed that the entire C7 vertebra was affected by a plasmocytoma. Decompression was carried out but no stabilisation of the spinal column was performed. Seven days after surgery the patient became paraplegic. Chemotherapy produced no improvement.


CONCLUSIONS
Transverse syndrome may be a dominant feature of plasmocytoma and may resolve after immediate decompression but may recur if the spinal column is not stabilised.
Finsterer
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2nd Neurological Department, Neurological Hospital Rosenhügel, Vienna, Austria.
Kladosek
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Gornik
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Birkner
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D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology