Lumbar spinal chondroma presented with radiculopathy: A case report

Year 2011, Volume: 3 Issue: 3, 28 - 30, 01.08.2011

Alper Karaoğlan Bilal Kelten Osman Akdemir Mehmet Alpay Çal

Abstract

Although chondromas are common benign cartilaginous bone tumors, spinal chondromas are very unusual. However, spinal chondromas may present with local mass, local pain, spinal cord compression symptoms, cauda equina syndrome; they also present with radicular symptoms rarely. Here, a patient with the chief complaint: progressive low back pain radiating left leg, is presented as a case of lumbar spinal chondroma. In this kind of cases; preoperative evaluation of the lesion must be done carefully, total excision of the lesion must be done before neurological damages develop, and also histopathological studies must be done because of a potential risk of malign transformation as a cardinal importance.

Keywords

chondroma, lumbar vertebrae, radiculopathy

Radikülopati ile prezente olan lumbar spinal kondroma: Olgu sunumu

Abstract

Kondromalar sık rastlanan kıkırdak kaynaklı benign kemik tümörleri olmakla beraber spinal yerleşimli kondromalar nadirdir. Spinal yerleşimli kondromalar klinik olarak lokal kitle, lokal ağrı, kord basısı semptomları, cauda equina sendromu veya daha da seyrek olarak radiküler semptomlar ile belirti verebilirler. Burada bel ağrısının sol bacağına yayılması şikayetiyle başvuran bir lumbar spinal kolon kondroma olgusu sunulmuştur. Bu olgularda lezyonun preoperatif değerlendirilmesi dikkatli yapılmalı, major nörolojik hasar gelişmeden önce kitlenin eksizyonu yapılmalı ve lezyonun malin transformasyon gösterme potansiyeli nedeniyle lezyonun histopatolojik değerlendirmesi yapılmalıdır.

Keywords

kondroma, lumbar vertebra, radikülopati

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