Intramedullary spinal cord schwannoma
- Author:
Son Xuan Vo
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
schwannoma
- MeSH:
Neurilemmoma;
Spinal Cord
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2001;395(3):16-19
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Intramedullary spinal cord schwannoma is rare tumors, occupies only 1 to 2 percents of all intramedullary tumors. The case of intramedullary schwannoma located in conus medullae, the very rare location for intramedullary schwannoma, is described. Clinical presentation includes flaccid paresis of lower extremities, disturbances of bowel and bladder, lost of superficial sensory and reducing of deep sensory, the "hanging area" of lost sensory was not noticed. The images showed the fusiform tumor within the conus medullae. The total removal was applied and the good motor recovery was more slowly and symptoms of disturbance of bladder and bowel were not improved at the time of two months after operation. Radical resection of intramedullary tumor is widespread inclination in the world. If the medulotomy is provided in right maneuver, it does not cause the significant damage of spinal cord as our thought and it can well result.
