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| Year : 2012 | Volume
: 7
| Issue : 1 | Page : 64-66 |
Primary Ewing's sarcoma of the spine presenting as acute paraplegia
CV Gopalakrishnan, Adesh Shrivastava, HV Easwer, Suresh Nair
Department of Neurosurgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India
Correspondence Address:
C V Gopalakrishnan
C.V., Department of Neurosurgery, SCTIMST, Trivandrum - 695 011
India
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DOI: 10.4103/1817-1745.97630
Ewing's sarcoma is a primary bone malignancy with the highest incidence in the second decade of life. Although it mostly affects the metaphyseal region of long growing bones, involvement of spine is not very uncommon especially the sacrum. Nonsacral spinal Ewing's sarcoma is rarer and often mimics a benign condition before spreading extensively. They present with neurologic deficits due to spinal cord compression, but acute onset paraplegia has not been previously reported. A high index of clinical suspicion can clinch the diagnosis early in the course of the disease. A prompt intervention is required to keep neurological damage to a minimum, and a correct combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy is required for better long-term patient outcome. We report a 16-year-old female who presented with acute paraplegia and had an excellent postoperative outcome after radical excision of a D9 Ewing's sarcoma.
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