Incidental thoracic spinal angiolipoma in a young woman presenting with trauma

Year 2020, Volume: 11 Issue: 3, 79 - 81, 23.11.2020

İhsan Canbek , Sevilay Vural , Hakan Ak

https://doi.org/10.33706/jemcr.759924

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Introduction: Spinal angiolipoma is a rare clinical entity and usually presents with clinical signs and symptoms of spinal cord compression. It has two types; non-infiltrating and infiltrating. It is more common in females at the ages of 40-50 and at the mid-thoracic levels.
Case report: We discussed an incidentally diagnosed non-infiltrating angiolipoma in the lower thoracic spine level in a 33-year-old female patient who presented to the emergency department with severe low back pain after trauma in this case report.
Conclusion: Spinal angiolipoma should not be forgotten in the differential diagnoses of the patients presenting with severe back pain after trauma.

Keywords

Spine, Trauma, Back pain, Angiolipoma

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