Osteochondroma of the thoracic spine: an unusual cause of spinal cord compression

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1996 May;17(5):961-4.

Abstract

A 24-year-old man with hereditary multiple exostoses had numbness of the lower extremities and difficulty walking. CT displayed a calcified extradural mass lesion within the spinal canal at T-8 causing cord compression. MR imaging showed it to be contiguous with the upper endplate of T-8, suggesting the diagnosis of osteochondroma, a rare cause of cord compression, and distinguishing the lesion from a calcified disk fragment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Calcinosis / diagnosis
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Exostoses, Multiple Hereditary / complications*
  • Humans
  • Intervertebral Disc / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Osteochondromatosis / complications*
  • Osteochondromatosis / diagnosis
  • Spinal Cord Compression / etiology*
  • Spinal Diseases / diagnosis
  • Spinal Neoplasms / complications*
  • Spinal Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed