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Epidural lipomatosis: case report and literature review |
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| Authors: | J. Hierholzer G. Benndorf T. Lehmann G. H. Schneider B. Podrabsky B. Sander R. Sörensen R. Siekmann G. Stoltenburg R. Felix |
| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Radiology, Virenow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany;(2) Department of Neurosurgery, Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353 Berlin, Germany;(3) Department of Neuropathology, Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| Abstract: | We report a case of symptomatic epidural lipomatosis in a 36-year-old man following a heart lung transplant and 3.5 years of steroid medication. A review of the pertinent literature emphasises the importance of including this diagnosis in the differential diagnosis of patients receiving steroid medication or markedly obese patients with back pain or symptoms suggesting spinal cord or cauda equina compression. |
| Keywords: | Epidural lipomatosis Steroids Spinal cord compression Myelography Heart-lung transplant |
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