Thoracic Intraspinal Paracoccidioidomycosis

Thoracic adenomegaly as the predominant manifestation of paracoccidioidomycosis.

A rare thoracic intraspinal schwannoma in twin pregnancy with aggravated clinical presence

INTRODUCTION This is the first case report about a thoracic intraspinal schwannoma in twin pregnancy with aggressive clinical presentation. CLINICAL PRESENCE AND DIAGNOSES A 21-year-old woman presented with a 2-month history of back pain and slight lower extremity numbness and weakness, and her symptoms were misdiagnosed as normal reactions to pregnancy until she progressed to complete paraly...

Thoracic Intraspinal Synovial Cyst Causing Myelopathy: A Case Report

spine and less commonly found in the cervical spine (1). An occurrence of a cyst in the thoracic spine causing myelopathy is extremely rare (2) and to the best of our knowledge, 25 cases of thoracic synovial cyst have been reported in the English language clinical literature and of these cases, only seven cases have been reported where a synovial cyst was combined with myelopathy. These intrasp...

Application of lamina replantation with ARCH plate fixation in thoracic and lumbar intraspinal tumors

The aim of the present study was to investigate the clinical effects of lamina replantation with ARCH plate fixation on patients with thoracic and lumbar intraspinal tumors, following laminectomy. Thirteen patients with thoracic and lumbar intraspinal tumors underwent total lamina replantation with ARCH plate fixation and repair of the supraspinous ligaments, following laminectomy and tumor enu...

Intradural spinal teratoma: case report and review of the literature.

Primary intradural teratomas are very rare tumors, only 20 cases have been reported [1-16]. Intraspinal teratomas are most often located in the dorsal aspect of the cervical or lower thoracic-upper lumbar regions. We report a case of an upper thoracic, ventrally located intraspinal teratoma associated with multiple spinal anomalies. The patient was evaluated by conventional myelography, CT metr...