Spinal Disrafizmin Eşlik Etmediği Servikal İntradural Lipom: Olgu Sunumu
Uğur Bostancı, Etem Beşkonaklı, Tevfik Güç, Ali İhsan Ökten, Gökhan Akdemir, Yamaç Taşkın
Article No:
9
Article Type :
Case Report
Spinal intradural lipomas are rare and benign congenital tumours. Intradural lipomas without spinal dysraphism are even very rare and just over 100 cases have been reported up to date. The surgical treatment is dillicult because most of these lesions have both intra and extramedullary components and can not be totally removed. In this paper, an extensive intradural lipoma of the cervical spinal region without spinal dysraphism in present in a 24 year-old man.
Keywords :
Lipoma, magnetic resonance imaging, spinal cord, spinal dysraphism
Dusunen Adam : The Journal of Psychiatry and Neurological Sciences :
1998;11:56-58
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