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. 1996 May;17(5):961-4.

Osteochondroma of the thoracic spine: an unusual cause of spinal cord compression.

G E Quirini 1, J R Meyer 1, M Herman 1, E J Russell 1
PMCID: PMC8337525  PMID: 8733974

Abstract

A 24-year-old man with hereditary multiple exostoses had numbness of the lower extremities and difficulty walking. CT displayed a calcified extradural mass lesion within the spinal canal at T-8 causing cord compression. MR imaging showed it to be contiguous with the upper endplate of T-8, suggesting the diagnosis of osteochondroma, a rare cause of cord compression, and distinguishing the lesion from a calcified disk fragment.

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