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PRIMARY EXTRADURAL NEOPLASMS CAUSING SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION
Author(s) -
Ojeda Victor J.,
Arandia Eduardo G.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1983.tb02401.x
Subject(s) - medicine , chondrosarcoma , laminectomy , mesenchymal chondrosarcoma , aneurysmal bone cyst , surgery , sarcoma , spinal cord compression , biopsy , spinal cord , spinal cord neoplasm , radiology , magnetic resonance imaging , pathology , lesion , psychiatry
Thirteen patients presented primary extradural neoplasms compressing the spinal cord and/or roots in a four year period. Laminectomy and tumour excision or biopsy were carried out in twelve patients and transthoracic resection in the one remaining. Six tumours were benign; two were neurofibromata associated with von Recklinghausen's disease; two were osteochondromata; and there were single cases of cavernous haemangioma and aneurysmal bone cyst. All patients are alive and well; follow‐up ranges between 1.3 an 8.5 years post‐operation. Among the malignant neoplasms there were three malignant lymphomata, two Ewing's sarcoma and single instances of mesenchymal chondrosarcoma and chondrosarcoma of the classical type. Four patients are alive, having been followed up between 3.5 to 5 years.