Sacrococcygeal ganglioneuroma.
Ganglioneuromas are benign slow-growing masses that can be treated with complete surgical extirpation without any adjuvant therapy. Such lesions involving the sacrococcygeal region are exceedingly rare. The authors present the case of a 70-year-old woman with a sacrococcygeal ganglioneuroma treated by total en bloc resection. This patient also had a previous coccygeal fracture. To the authors' knowledge, there are no other reports of ganglioneuroma in association with a history of trauma.
Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, U.S.A.
Eric
E
Marmor
Daryl R
DR
Fourney
Laurence D
LD
Rhines
John M
JM
Skibber
Gregory N
GN
Fuller
Ziya L
ZL
Gokaslan
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009423:Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D012445:Sacrococcygeal Region / Q000294:innervation*; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000473:pathology