title: Pigment villonodular synovitis of the spine. Case report and review of the literature.
abstract: Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is a disease of the joints which uncommonly involves the spine. We present a 70-year-old woman with radicular symptoms who was found to have a mass arising from a lumbar zygapophyseal joint with extension into the spinal canal. Following gross-total excision of the mass, histology revealed PVNS. One month after surgery, the patient had no symptoms and there was no evidence of residual or recurrent disease.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Istituto Nazionale Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy. fdimeco@jhmi.edu
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dimeco
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rizzo
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ciceri
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Casali
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Pollo
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Lasio
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D007866:Leg; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D011859:Radiography; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013586:Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery