title: Thoracolumbar paravertebral giant ganglioneuroma and scoliosis: a case report and literature review.
abstract: Paravertebral ganglioneuroma and scoliosis is a rare clinical benign disease. The case we reported is about a 12-year-old girl who was hospitalized due to neoplasm with spinal deformity in the right abdomen for 1 month. Based on a careful preoperative evaluation and found no obvious surgery contraindications, the patient was treated with surgical resection of the tumor and correction of the deformity by surgery. Postoperative pathologic examination confirmed it was a ganglioneuroma. After the operation, the patient recovered well. Her spinal deformity was corrected, and she was 5 cm taller. Complete resection of ganglioneuroma following with a low recurrence rate and a good prognosis, patient does not need further chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or other treatments. All follow-up radiographic studies demonstrated no relapse of the tumor in the following 18 months. Combining this case with similar cases at home and aboard and reviewing related literature, we formed conclusions based on the manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of this disease and provided treatments for similar cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, 650118, People's Republic of China. 635942159@qq.com.
authors.forename: Yihao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, 650118, People's Republic of China. 592233823@qq.com.
authors.forename: Mingyan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, 650118, People's Republic of China. 670002696@qq.com.
authors.forename: Zhongqin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yuan
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, 650118, People's Republic China. 353142503@qq.com.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, 650118, People's Republic China. zzp718@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Zhiping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, 650118, People's Republic of China. nmlimit@sina.com.
authors.forename: Jing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Oncology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, 650118, People's Republic of China. xielinyanghan@163.com.
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Tumor Hospital of Yunnan Province, Kunming, Yunnan, 650118, People's Republic of China. yangzuozhang@163.com.
authors.forename: Zuozhang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005729:Ganglioneuroma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery