Cervical spinal cord lipoma with extension into the posterior fossa

Abstract This communication describes a patient with an intradural lipoma that occupied the entire cervical canal and extended into the 4th ventricle. The diagnosis was made preoperatively by use of computed tomography of the head and the spine.

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Cervical spinal cord infarction after posterior fossa surgery: a case-based update

Child s Nervous System ◽

10.1007/s00381-009-0950-3 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 25 (12) ◽

pp. 1541-1546 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Juan F. Martínez-Lage ◽

María-José Almagro ◽

Virginia Izura ◽

Cristina Serrano ◽

Antonio M. Ruiz-Espejo ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Posterior Fossa ◽

Cervical Spinal Cord ◽

Spinal Cord Infarction ◽

Posterior Fossa Surgery ◽

Case Based

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Torticollis secondary to posterior fossa and cervical spinal cord tumors: report of five cases and literature review

Neurosurgical Review ◽

10.1007/s10143-006-0034-8 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 333-338 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

Sefer Kumandaş ◽

Hüseyin Per ◽

Hakan Gümüş ◽

Bülent Tucer ◽

Ali Yikilmaz ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Literature Review ◽

Posterior Fossa ◽

Cervical Spinal Cord ◽

Spinal Cord Tumors

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Congenital neural abnormalities presenting with mirror movements in a patient with Klippel-Feil syndrome

Journal of Neurosurgery ◽

10.3171/jns.1983.59.5.0891 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 59 (5) ◽

pp. 891-894 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Ian R. Whittle ◽

Michael Besser

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Cervical Spine ◽

Posterior Fossa ◽

Pyramidal Tract ◽

Cervical Spinal Cord ◽

Content Type ◽

Mirror Movements ◽

Posterior Fossa Cyst ◽

Vertebral Anomalies ◽

Fine Print

✓ A young girl with Klippel-Feil syndrome presented with the onset of mirror movements in early childhood. Computerized tomography studies of her cervical spine and brain revealed fibrous diastematomyelia with duplication of the cervical spinal cord and an extra-axial midline posterior fossa cyst, together with the multiple cervical vertebral anomalies. Exploration of the posterior fossa lesion revealed it to be a dermoid cyst. The congenital spinal and cord abnormalities found in this case support the hypothesis that the Klippel-Feil syndrome may be associated with variable duplication of the spinal cord and that mirror movements may be related to impairment of pyramidal tract decussation.

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Torticollis as a first sign of posterior fossa and cervical spinal cord tumors in children

Child s Nervous System ◽

10.1007/s00381-013-2255-9 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 425-430 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Alicja Fąfara-Leś ◽

Stanisław Kwiatkowski ◽

Laura Maryńczak ◽

Zdzisław Kawecki ◽

Dariusz Adamek ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Posterior Fossa ◽

Cervical Spinal Cord ◽

Spinal Cord Tumors

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Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Lesions of the Posterior Fossa and Upper Cervical Cord in Childhood

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.76.1.84 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 76 (1) ◽

pp. 84-90

Author(s):

Roger J. Packer ◽

Robert A. Zimmerman ◽

Larissa T. Bilanuik ◽

Thomas G. Leurssen ◽

Leslie N. Sutton ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽

Spinal Cord ◽

Magnetic Resonance ◽

Posterior Fossa ◽

Congenital Anomalies ◽

Cervical Spinal Cord ◽

Cervical Cord ◽

Resonance Imaging ◽

Spinal Cord Disease ◽

Ct Evaluation

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) promises to be an effective, nonivasive means of visualizing intracranial pathology. It should be especially useful in the evaluation of posterior fossa and cervical spinal cord disease of childhood; computed tomographic (CT) evaluation is frequently suboptimal in this region. MRI results are reported for 46 consecutively seen children with posterior fossa and/or cervical spinal cord disease (28 had brain malignancies; seven had congenital anomalies; three had cerebrovascular accidents). MRI was performed primarily by the partial saturation on a .12 Tesla resistive proton unit. All patients underwent concurrent CT evaluation. demonstrated abnormalities in 96% of scans in patients with structural CNS disease (48 of 50). CNS malignancies were visualized in 100% (28 of 28) of children studied. MRI was especially useful in demonstrating the full extent of infiltrating gliomas and the anatomic location of other mass lesions. MRI frequently demonstrated disease to be more extensive than seen on CT. MRI was more sensitive than CT in documenting reponse to treatment and disease relapse in patients with infiltrating tumors. Cystic regions within tumors were poorly seen on MRI. Congenital anomalies were demonstrated in all patients evaluated and were better delineated using MRI than CT. MRI is sensitive in the evaluation of posterior fossa and cervical spinal cord disease of childhood and it has obvious advantages over CT; however, its specificity in such evaluations has yet to be proven.

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Alterations in the number of motoneurons containing immunoreactive calcitonin gene-related peptide(CGRP)& choline acetyltransferase(ChAT) in the cervical spinal cord of the wobbler mouse during the development of the motoneuron disease

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100141226 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 53 ◽

pp. 970-971

Author(s):

L. Vacca-Galloway ◽

Y.Q. Zhang ◽

P. Bose ◽

S.H. Zhang

Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Early Stage ◽

Cervical Spinal Cord ◽

Wild Type Mouse ◽

Reflex Response ◽

Mouse Strains ◽

Behavioral Tests ◽

Wobbler Mouse ◽

Stage 4 ◽

Stage 1

The Wobbler mouse (wr) has been studied as a model for inherited human motoneuron diseases (MNDs). Using behavioral tests for forelimb power, walking, climbing, and the “clasp-like reflex” response, the progress of the MND can be categorized into early (Stage 1, age 21 days) and late (Stage 4, age 3 months) stages. Age-and sex-matched normal phenotype littermates (NFR/wr) were used as controls (Stage 0), as well as mice from two related wild-type mouse strains: NFR/N and a C57BI/6N. Using behavioral tests, we also detected pre-symptomatic Wobblers at postnatal ages 7 and 14 days. The mice were anesthetized and perfusion-fixed for immunocytochemical (ICC) of CGRP and ChAT in the spinal cord (C3 to C5).Using computerized morphomety (Vidas, Zeiss), the numbers of IR-CGRP labelled motoneurons were significantly lower in 14 day old Wobbler specimens compared with the controls (Fig. 1). The same trend was observed at 21 days (Stage 1) and 3 months (Stage 4). The IR-CGRP-containing motoneurons in the Wobbler specimens declined progressively with age.

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