title: Endometriosis of conus medullaris: a case report.
abstract: Endometriosis involving the neural axis is extremely rare. A twenty-five-year-old woman presented with acute onset paraparesis with bladder involvement of five-day duration. We missed her history of cyclical back-ache related to menses at the emergency room. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of spinal cord showed an intramedullary tumour with bleeding at conus-epiconus level. She was operated in the emergency department with laminectomy-durotomy and tumour decompression. Histopathology of the tumour was suggested endometriosis.
authors.affiliation: Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences , Neurosurgery, Lucknow 226014 , India.
authors.forename: R N
authors.initials: RN
authors.lastname: Sahu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tungaria
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pal
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D018908:Muscle Weakness / Q000209:etiology; D009460:Neurologic Examination; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures; D020335:Paraparesis / Q000209:etiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000473:pathology; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000209:etiology