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American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol 17, Issue 5 961-964, Copyright © 1996 by American Society of Neuroradiology

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

GE Quirini, JR Meyer, M Herman and EJ Russell
Department of Radiology, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

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.




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