Radiological Cases of the Month

Presacral ganglioneuroma in a 70-year-old man with persistent constipation and its features on computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and endoscopic ultrasonography are presented. Barium enema study and laparotomy showed that constipation was caused mainly by extrinsic compression from this tumor. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance, endoscopic ultrasonographic features such as well-defined solid tumor with a cystic component and punctate calcifications may facilitate early diagnosis of this rare tumor.

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Intervertebral disc space inflammation in children

Maliner

Johnson

1997

Child's Nervous System

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Discitis in children commonly presents with fever, back pain, irritability, and an inability to walk. An elevated ESR and characteristic changes on plain X-rays or bone scan are sufficient for diagnosis, but MRI is more sensitive and more specific, and it shows pathologic changes earlier. Intravenous antibiotics are administered when cultures of the disc space are positive, but in more than half of the cases, no organism can be grown. Symptoms are alleviated with bed-rest or external orthoses, but neither the duration nor the kind of symptomatic treatment influences outcome.

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Malignant intraperitoneal neoplasms of childhood

Presacral ganglioneuroma arising in an elderly man with persistent constipation

Intervertebral disc space inflammation in children

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