Abstract

  Lower back pain is an extremely common and rather vague entity with numerous differentials in its list ranging from congenital to non-neoplastic and malignant lesions. Here, we report a rather unusual cause of back pain resulting from congenital and neoplastic etiology. Synspondylism, which is fusion of the thoracic vertebrae and an intradural extramedullary meningioma of suspicious invasive pattern of growth in the same patient is discussed along with a brief review of literature.

Keywords: Vertebral Fusion; Meningioma; Spine

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Citation

Citation: Akshay Agarwal and Utkarsh Mishra. “Concomitant Synspondylism and Thoracic Spinal Meningioma, An Extremely Unusual Occurrence". Acta Scientific Otolaryngology 3.1 (2021): 20-22.

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Copyright: © 2021 Akshay Agarwal and Utkarsh Mishra. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.