title: [Lumbar neuroendocrine carcinoma with invasion of the neural canal].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Extraspinal tumors are a rare cause of lumbar root compression and neuroendocrine origin are one of the least frequent of this group.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 70 years-old woman complained of pain in low back and her right leg. Following image studies a tumor at the level of the L2 vertebrae was diagnosed. This was operated on and a neuroendocrine carcinoma was removed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The neuroendocrine tumors show a slow grows typically and are located in the gastrointestinal tract and lung. These are very rare in others localizations.
authors: Servicio de Neurocirugía, Clinica La Luz, Quito, Ecuador.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Mesias-Cortez
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Vasquez-Garrido
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Garcia-Montalvo
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D018278:Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008161:Lumbosacral Region; D013115:Spinal Canal / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery