Clinics in diagnostic imaging (68). Intradural extramedullary spinal paraganglioma.
Paragangliomas rarely present as spine tumours. The correct diagnosis is generally not suspected pre-operatively and initial imaging is often non-specific. A 36-year-old man with low back pain, and progressive leg numbness and weakness, was found to have an expansile intradural extramedullary spinal tumour on radiographs and magnetic resonance imaging. Surgery revealed a paraganglioma. The features of spinal paraganglioma and differential diagnosis of intradural extramedullary tumours are discussed.
Lalloo
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Department of Radiology, Wentworth Hospital, Durban, South Africa. kasper7@mweb.co.za
Mayat
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Landers
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Nadvi
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D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed