Cervicothoracic meningioma refractory to surgical treatment. Case report and literature revie

  • Natalia Guadalupe Alcazar Hospital de Cipolletti
  • Omar Penicó
  • Gabriela Nancy Guardia Moyano
  • Federico Lucas Ginnobili
  • Néstor Sandi
  • Roberto Tapia
Keywords: Meningioma, refractory, intraspinal tumors

Abstract

We report the case of a 60-year-old man with clinical signs of cervical myelopathy during a year, intense cervicodorsal pain (Frankel B stage, Nurick grade V), at the moment of our first examination. He shows a magnetic resonance study reporting cervicothoracic tumor compatible with meningioma. The patient required a quick surgical resolution and excision. Although the time between the initial clinical presentation and the preliminary diagnosis of meningioma by magnetic resonance imaging is within that reported in the literature, we believe that this disease could have been diagnosed and treated earlier. We conclude that late diagnosis added to the limitations in the current public health system have contributed to the unsatisfactory outcome, because after tumor resection, spinal release and stabilization with surgical material, immediate results were successful, but the patient did not obtain a long-term good functional outcome, because he did not recover motor and sensory function, we only avoided myelopathy progression and pain.

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Published
2016-08-31
Section
Presentación de Casos