Rare Diseases and Syndromes of the Spinal Cord

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Cervical Myelopathy Due to Exostosis of the Posterior Arch of the Atlas....Pages 3-5
Myelopathy Due to Congenital Hypoplasia of the Atlas....Pages 7-9
Congenital Absence of the Posterior Elements of the Axis....Pages 11-12
Congenital Afibrinogenemia....Pages 13-16
Anterior Arch Aplasia with OS Odontoideum....Pages 17-18
Myelopathy in Pediatric Blau Syndrome....Pages 19-20
Intradural Extramedullary Bronchgenic Cyst....Pages 21-23
Intramedullary Capillary Hemangioma....Pages 25-26
Intradural Extramedullary Capillary Hemangioma....Pages 27-29
Spinal Intradural Cerebellar Ectopia....Pages 31-32
Cystic Dilatation of the Conus Ventriculus Terminalis....Pages 33-35
Syringomyelia in Association with Dandy-Walker Syndrome....Pages 37-38
Myelopathy Due to Duplication of the Laminae....Pages 39-40
Compression Myelopathy Due to an Intramedullary Cyst Containing Ectopic Choroidal Plexus Tissue....Pages 41-42
Chiari 1 Malformation and Holocord Syringomyelia in Hunter Syndrome....Pages 43-45
Myelopathy in Infantile Myofibromatosis....Pages 47-49
Tetraparesis in Laurence-Moon-Biedl-Bardet Syndrome....Pages 51-52
Lymphangiomatosis....Pages 53-54
Ischemic Myelopathy Due to Marfan’s Syndrome....Pages 55-56
Myelopathy in Neurocutatneous Melanosis....Pages 57-58
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Myelopathy in Osteogenesis Imperfecta....Pages 59-61
Prader-Willi Syndrome....Pages 63-64
Compression Myelopathy in Proteus Syndrome....Pages 65-67
Segmental Spinal Dysgenesis....Pages 69-72
Ischemic Myelopathy Due to Sickle Cell Trait....Pages 73-76
Sotos Syndrome as a Cause of Compression Myelopathy....Pages 77-78
Atlantoaxial Instability in Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita....Pages 79-80
Brown Séquard Syndrome Associated with Sprengel’s Deformity....Pages 81-83
Synovial Chondromatosis....Pages 85-86
Myelopathy Due to Tourette’s Syndrome....Pages 87-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Adrenomyeloneuropathy Causing Spastic Paresis....Pages 93-95
Copper Deficiency....Pages 97-99
Diabetic Myelopathy....Pages 101-103
Cervical Myelomalacia in Laron Syndrome....Pages 105-107
Compression Myelopathy due to Tophaceous Gout....Pages 109-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Myelopathy due to Acupuncture....Pages 113-116
Bronchial Artery Embolization (BAE) for Severe Hemoptysis....Pages 117-118
Spinal Cord Infarction Following Central Line Insertion....Pages 119-120
Chemical Myelopathy due to Cervical Myelography....Pages 121-123
Myelopathy due to Cervical Spinal Manipulation....Pages 125-127
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Paraplegia Following Chemonucleolysis....Pages 129-130
Spinal Cord Injury After Chest Compressions....Pages 131-132
Cervical Myelopathy Contrast Injection....Pages 133-134
Acute Transverse Myelitis in an Infant After Dtap Vaccination....Pages 135-138
Paraplegia After Endovascular Repair of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm....Pages 139-140
Spinal Cord Infarction After Endoscopic Esophageal Varix Ligation....Pages 141-142
Subacute Combined Degeneration Provoked by Nitrous Oxide Anethesia Patients with Cobalamin Deficiency....Pages 143-146
Myelopathy due to Cervical Spine Flexion for Pediatric Tracheal Resection....Pages 147-149
Spinal Cord Stimulator Scar Tissue....Pages 151-152
Neonatal Paraplegia Through Umbilical Catheterization....Pages 153-155
Malfunction of a Ventriculo-Peritoneal Shunt....Pages 157-158
Viper Antivenin Induced Brown-Séquard Syndrome....Pages 159-160
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Baastrup’s Disease Causing Neurogenic Claudication....Pages 163-165
Castleman’s Disease....Pages 167-169
Cruciate Paralysis....Pages 171-174
Myelopathy Due To Gorham’s Disease....Pages 175-177
Hajdu Cheney Syndrome....Pages 179-180
Holocord Myelopathy with Thoracic Stenosis....Pages 181-182
Myelitis due to Hypertrophic Dens....Pages 183-185
Myelopathy due to Léri’s Disease....Pages 187-189
Front Matter....Pages 161-161
Idiopathic Primary Spinal Myoclonus....Pages 191-192
Idiopathic Retroperitoneal Fibrosis....Pages 193-195
Isolated Spinal Neuro-Behçet Disease....Pages 197-201
Subacute Progressive Ascending Myelopathy (SPAM)....Pages 203-205
Idiopathic Spinal Cord Herniation....Pages 207-210
Spontaneous Spinal Epidural Hematoma....Pages 211-213
Tumoral Calcinosis of the Spine....Pages 215-217
Transient Cervical Myeloneurapraxia....Pages 219-221
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
Bacterial Meningitis in Adults....Pages 225-226
Guillain-Barré Syndrome Following Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation....Pages 227-230
Coxsackie Transverse Myelitis....Pages 231-233
Cytomegalovirus Myelitis....Pages 235-238
Degos Disease (DD)....Pages 239-241
Dengue Myelitis....Pages 243-245
Dental Extraction....Pages 247-249
Holospinal Epidural Abscess....Pages 251-252
Imported Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Poliomyelitis....Pages 253-254
Lemierre’s Syndrome....Pages 255-257
Listeriosis....Pages 259-260
Front Matter....Pages 261-263
Melioidosis....Pages 223-223
Mumps Viraemia....Pages 265-267
Myelitis due to Sparganosis....Pages 269-270
Toxoplasmosis of the Spinal Cord....Pages 271-274
Trypanosomiasis....Pages 275-277
Compression Myelopathy due to Typhoid Spondylodiscitis....Pages 279-281
West Nile Virus Infection....Pages 283-286
Zoster Myelitis....Pages 287-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-292
Adamantinoma of the Spine....Pages 293-295
Amyloidosis....Pages 297-297
Acute Paraplegia Secondary to Brown Tumor....Pages 299-300
Myelopathy due to Chondroblastoma of the Spine....Pages 301-303
Costal Osteochondroma Causing Compression Myelopathy....Pages 305-308
Cutaneous Adenocystic Carcinoma....Pages 309-311
Myelopathy due to Intraspinal Desmoid Tumor....Pages 313-315
Intramedullary Ectopic Adrenal Cortical Adenoma....Pages 317-318
Spinal Tanycytic Ependymoma....Pages 319-321
Follicular Dendritic Cell Sarcoma (FDCS)....Pages 323-324
Left Atrial Papillary Fibroelastoma....Pages 325-329
Front Matter....Pages 331-333
Gliofibroma....Pages 335-337
Glioneuronal Tumor....Pages 297-297
Myelopathy in Primary Spinal Epidural Mantle Cell Lymphoma....Pages 339-341
Malingnant Eccrine Poroma....Pages 343-344
Melanoma....Pages 345-347
Intramedullary Meningioma of the Cervical Spinal Cord....Pages 349-351
Metastatic Retinoblastoma (Pediatric)....Pages 353-355
Infantile Myofibromatosis....Pages 357-360
Myopericytoma of the Thoracic Spine Causing Myelopathy....Pages 361-362
Natural Killer T-Cell Lymphoma of the Cauda Equina....Pages 363-366
Myelopathy in Neurocutatneous Melanosis....Pages 367-368
Anaplastic Oligodendroglioma....Pages 369-371
Oncocytoma in Melanocytoma....Pages 373-374
Osteosarcoma....Pages 375-377
Myelopathy Due to Spinal Paraganglioma....Pages 379-380
Plasma Cell Leukemia (PCL)....Pages 381-383
Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma....Pages 385-388
Primary Intraspinal Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET)....Pages 389-390
Intramedullary Schwannoma Associated with Neurofibromatosis....Pages 391-393
Secondary Syringomyelia due to Spinal Intramedullary Metastasis....Pages 395-398
Front Matter....Pages 399-401
Spinal Hemangioblastomas in Von Hippel Lindau Disease....Pages 403-405
Spinal Artery Steal Syndrome in Paget’s Disease of the Bone....Pages 297-297
Intramedullary Teratoma....Pages 407-409
Front Matter....Pages 411-412
Benzene Myelitis....Pages 413-416
Myelopathy due to Flexion Drug Overdose....Pages 417-417
Myelopathy due to Heroin Addiction....Pages 419-421
Myelopathy due to Wasp Sting....Pages 423-425
Front Matter....Pages 427-429
Anterior Spinal Artery Syndrome....Pages 431-433
Cervical Myelopathy Caused by Bilateral Persistence of the First Intersegmental Arteries....Pages 435-435
Myelopathy in Cobb Syndrome....Pages 437-440
Eale’s Disease....Pages 441-443
Ectopic Choroidal Plexus Tissue....Pages 445-447
Myelopathy due to Fibrocartilaginous Spinal Cord Embolism....Pages 449-451
Intravascular Papillary Endothelial Hyperplasia....Pages 453-454
Posterior Spinal Artery Syndrome....Pages 455-457
Myelopathy due to Spinal Cord Vasculitis....Pages 459-461
Epidural Varix....Pages 463-464
Front Matter....Pages 465-467
Paraplegia of Cerebral Origin....Pages 469-473
Decompression Sickness....Pages 475-475
Exertional Myelopathy due to Congenital Kyphosis Type II....Pages 477-479
Front Matter....Pages 481-483
Thoracic Compression Myelopathy due to Facet Joint Osteophyte....Pages 485-486
Hysterical Paralysis....Pages 475-475
Differential Diagnosis: Hypermagnesemia....Pages 487-488
Spinal Epidural Lubricant Grease....Pages 489-492
Myelopathy due to Intramedullary Herniated Nucleus Pulposus....Pages 493-494
Spinal Cord Injury Without Radiologic Abnormality (Sciwora)....Pages 495-496
Surfer’s Myelopathy....Pages 497-498
Trampoline Spinal Cord Injuries in Pediatrics....Pages 499-501
Traumatic Tethering....Pages 503-505
Back Matter....Pages 507-508
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