Table 1.

Solitary juvenile xanthogranuloma cases involving the spine reported in the literature (2007)

	Shimosawa et al. [16]	Kitchen et al. [10]	Kim et al. [9]	Rampini et al. [15]	Present case
Age	13 months	15 years	16 months	34 months	18 years
Sex	Female	Female	Female	Female	Female
Symptoms and signs	Difficult stance, mild spastic paraparesis	Lower back and leg pain, Lase`gue positive	Difficult stance and gait, spastic paraparesis	Intense cervical and right brachial pain, tetraparesis muscular hypotrophy	Intermittent pain in the right side of the neck
Tumor localization	Intradural extramedullary T6–T9	S1 nerve root sheath	Intradural extramedullary T1–T2	Intradural extramedullary C5–C7	C2 nerve root
CT	–	No contrast enhancement	–	–	Irregular calcifications in the mass after enhancement
MRI	Hypointense in T1; hypointense in T2; no contrast enhancement	Isointense in T1; hypointense in T2; isointense in DP; no contrast administered	Isointense in T1; hyperintense in T2; homogeneous enhancement	T1 isointense; T2 isointense; homogeneous enhancement	Isointense to hypointense in T1 and T2, hyperintense enhancement
Surgical approach	Five-level laminoplastic laminectomy	One-level laminectomy, sacral-hiatus resection	Four-level laminectomy	Four-level open-door laminoplasty	C1–C2 laminectomy
Tumor relation to adjacent structures	Adherent to inner layer of dura mater; arachnoid intact	Adherent to S1 nerve root sheath	Adherent to inner layer of dura mater; arachnoid intact	Adherent to inner layer of dura mater; arachnoid intact	Originated from C2 nerve root and involved the right lateral mass of the C1 and C2
Surgical resection	Total	Total	Total	Total	Total