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Female , Adolescent , Humans , Empyema/diagnosis , Empyema/epidemiology , Empyema/virology , Empyema/drug therapy , Empyema/surgery , Spinal Cord Compression/etiology , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy/therapeutic useABSTRACT
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Adolescent , Child , Humans , Wound Infection/diagnosis , Foot Injuries/diagnosis , Wounds, Stab/diagnosis , Foot Injuries/therapy , Wound Infection/therapy , Wounds, Stab/therapyABSTRACT
Symptomatic arachnoid cysts of the spine are rare lesions in the pediatric age group. Although most commonly occurring in association with neural tube defects, such as myelomeningocele and diastematomyelia, in some cases the cysts appear in children without spinal anomalies. We describe a 12-month-old girl with lumbar intradural arachnoid cyst with progressive weakness of the lower limbs. There was full recovery after fenestration of the cyst.
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Arachnoid Cysts/diagnosis , Spinal Cord Compression/etiology , Spinal Cord Diseases/diagnosis , Arachnoid Cysts/complications , Arachnoid Cysts/surgery , Decompression, Surgical , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Infant , Lumbar Vertebrae , Magnetic Resonance Imaging , Neural Tube Defects/diagnosis , Spinal Cord Diseases/complications , Spinal Cord Diseases/surgery , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Myxopapillary ependymoma of the filum terminale and conus medullaris are relatively common spinal intradural neoplasms in adults, only 8-14% affecting children. We describe a case of a 15-year-old girl with two myxopapillary ependymomas of the filum terminale. Although cases of two such tumours have been described in adults, we have not found any similar paediatric cases in the literature.
