title: Lumbar spinal chondroma presenting with radiculopathy: case report.
abstract: Chondroma is a very unusual cartilagenous neoplasm of the spine. Here we are present a case of spinal chondroma with radiculopathy. A 54-year-old female patient consulted with progressive low back pain and left femoral numbness. Lumbar spinal Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies showed an extradural mass lesion in the left L2 body. Computerized tomography (CT) did not reveal any osteolytic lesion of the bone. The mass lesion was excised totally by left partial hemilaminectomy and the intradural compartment was also checked. The histopathology of the lesion was confirmed as chondroma. Preoperative evaluation and meticulous pathological analysis are required because of the malignant transformation potential of these rare pathologies.
authors.affiliation: GATA Haydarpasa Training Hospital, Neurosurgery Department, Uskudar, Istanbul, Turkey. acetinkal@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cetinkal
authors.forename: Göksel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Güven
authors.forename: Ali Kivanç
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Topuz
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Colak
authors.forename: Mehmet Nusret
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Demircan
authors.forename: Aptullah
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haholu
mesh_terms: D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D019902:Chondrocytes / Q000473:pathology; D002812:Chondroma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006987:Hypesthesia / Q000209:etiology; D007796:Laminectomy; D017116:Low Back Pain / Q000209:etiology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D011843:Radiculopathy / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed