Abstract
Pediatric embryonal tumors have a rare occurrence in the peripheral nervous system. A more aberrant location is the extradural space, with only 25 cases being reported in literature. The seemingly innocuous symptoms can often be misleading as a sprain, and in our country, where tuberculosis is endemic, it can even be perceived as Pott’s spine, and therefore, leads to a delayed intervention for these rapidly progressive malignancies. We report the case of a 9-year-old boy whose symptoms started with a dull neck pain that was ignored for 6 months as a neck sprain. X-ray of his cervical spine showed only subtle loss of cervical lordosis, a finding that was missed. Eventually, he developed weakness of the right upper and lower limbs and was referred to our hospital. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a large lobulated extradural lesion extending from C1-D3 level of neoplastic etiology. Postlaminectomy, the histopathology was consistent with primitive embryonal tumor. The patient was immediately started on an intensive chemotherapy regimen and is currently in the consolidation phase.
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Patil, Rutuja; Chowdhry, Ratnapriya; Bhongale, Neha; and Wade, Poonam
(2024)
"A rare case of extradural Ewing sarcoma of the cervical spine in a 9-year-old boy,"
Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Biomedical Research KLEU: Vol. 17:
Iss.
3, Article 22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4103/kleuhsj.kleuhsj_235_24
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https://kleijhsbr.researchcommons.org/journal/vol17/iss3/22
Pages
298
Last Page
300
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