Spinal cord vasculitis presenting as a spinal cord tumor in a heroin addict
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG) in Journal of Neurosurgery
- Vol. 48 (1) , 131-134
- https://doi.org/10.3171/jns.1978.48.1.0131
Abstract
Progressive quadriparesis in a heroin addict was diagnosed on the basis of clinical and myelographic findings as an intramedullary cervical spinal cord tumor. A biopsy of the enlarged cervical spinal cord showed myelomalacia, vasculitis and many doubly refractile bodies in the parenchyma and vessel walls.Keywords
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