Thoracic ossified meningioma and osteoporotic burst fracture: treatment with combined vertebroplasty and laminectomy without instrumentation: case report.
Although spinal meningioma is a common benign neoplasm, the ossified variant is rare. No more than 20 sporadic cases were reported in the literature between 1977 and January 2005. Recently, the authors treated a patient with a symptomatic ossified meningioma located in the posterior aspect of T-11 and an associated osteoporotic T-11 burst fracture. The tumor was completely removed by T10-11 laminectomy and transpedicular vertebroplasty was performed. The kyphotic deformity of the T-11 burst fracture was partially reduced and maintained for at least 2 months after vertebroplasty and laminectomy. The clinical presentation and management of this case are reported.
Department of Neurosurgery, Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Chun-Lin
CL
Liu
Po-Liang
PL
Lai
Shih-Ming
SM
Jung
Cheng-Chih
CC
Liao
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy / Q000379:methods*; D008577:Meningeal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D008579:Meningioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*; D009999:Ossification, Heterotopic / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods; D016103:Spinal Fractures / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery*