Spinal Schwannoma in a Patient with Chronic Right Flank Pain Presenting at an Emergency Department
Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
;
: 588-590, 2011.
Article
in English
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| ID: wpr-76021
ABSTRACT
Many patients with flank pain present to an emergency department (ED). The differential diagnosis of flank pain is difficult, especially in the case of women. Spinal schwannoma (SS) is one of the most common intraduralextramedullary spinal tumors. SS can present as symmetrical pain in the back or pain that radiates to both the lower extremities, which is commonly observed in clinical practice. We report the case of a 47-year-old woman with pain in her right flank area that began 2 months before she presented to our ED. Abdominal contrast computed tomography was performed to identify an intra-abdominal cause for the pain. Incidentally, we found a schwannoma, a spinal cord tumor, at the 10th thoracic vertebrae level. The pain disappeared after the tumor was surgically resected. On the basis of our findings, we conclude that the pain in her right flank pain area was caused by the SS.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Spinal Cord Neoplasms
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Thoracic Vertebrae
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Flank Pain
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Lower Extremity
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Diagnosis, Differential
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Emergencies
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Neurilemmoma
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
Year:
2011
Type:
Article
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