Carcinoid tumours are rare with an incidence of 5.25/100,000. They predominantly originate in the gastrointestinal tract (50-60%) or bronchopulmonary system (25-30%). Common sites of metastasis are lymph nodes, liver, lungs and bone. Spinal metastasis are rare, but has been reported in patients with symptoms of spinal cord compression including neurological deficits. We report a rare case of ca...

Methods of investigation HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE Air myelography The first contrast medium used to show the spinal cord was air. The first reports of its use to localise intraspinal tumours came from Jacobeus in 1921 and Dandy in 1925.1 The technique was later refined to show the entire spinal canal; this involved complete replacement of the CSF by air and distension of the spinal subarachnoid s...

Schwannoma originates from the sheath of spinal cord roots neurilemma or Schwann cells (so it is mainly called neurilemmoma or Schwannoma) and makes one third of primary spinal cord tumours [1-6]. The tumour localization is in various parts of spinal cord, but prevailsin cervical and thoracic, rare in lumbar and sacral regions [1-7]. It can grow exophytic above and below the dura of spinal cord...

Multiple tumours of peripheral nerves are often seen in patients with neurofibromatosis of type 1 or 2. Multiple schwannomas may occur without other manifestations of neurofibromatosis. We have reviewed 12 patients with multiple schwannomas arising from peripheral lesions who did not fulfil the criteria for either type of neurofibromatosis. Four had spinal and one an intracranial lesion in addi...