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MULTIPLE INTRASPINAL AND INTRACRANIAL EPIDERMOIDS AND LIPOMATA FOLLOWING GUNSHOT INJURY
Author(s) -
SMITH C. M. L.,
TIMPERLEY W. R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
neuropathology and applied neurobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.538
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1365-2990
pISSN - 0305-1846
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2990.1984.tb00354.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gunshot injury , spinal trauma , etiology , gunshot wound , spinal injury , surgery , spinal cord , pathology , spinal cord injury , psychiatry
This case report describes the presence of numerous intradural spinal and cranial epidermoids and lipomata, as an incidental finding, 14 years after a spinal gunshot injury. The aetiological factors operating in the development of such tumours are discussed with reference to the general literature and to this case.