CASE REPORT
Diagnostic difficulties in the detection of spinal osteoblastoma in a child
Publication date: 2018-03-19
Pediatr Pol 2018;93(1):98-100
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ABSTRACT
We describe a case of a 15-year-old boy with low back pain that progressed and subsequently developed into unilateral lower limb numbness. An X-ray study was inconclusive, but a CT study showed a vertebral body mass with intravertebral space narrowing. An additional MRI study displayed compression of the spinal roots. The child demanded surgical management. A histological examination from the excised tumour revealed osteoblastoma.
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