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1411766

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-11-17
pubmed:abstractText
Fifty-seven patients with primary intradural spinal tumors operated on in North Manchester and Salford between 1978 and 1988 were reviewed retrospectively. The commonest diagnoses were meningioma and nerve sheath cell tumors (neurilemmomas and neurofibromas). The median delay in diagnosis was 2.5 years (range 3 days to 24 years). Fifty-eight percent were initially referred to orthopaedic surgeons and 95% percent to specialties other than neurosurgery. The commonest presenting symptom was back pain, but later neurologic and urinary symptoms came to predominate. Eighty-eight percent are disease-free at a mean follow-up of 5.7 years. Symptoms were partially or completely relieved in the majority of patients. Delay in diagnosis of these tumors arises from failure to consider the diagnosis in patients with longstanding back pain or neurologic problems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0362-2436
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
17
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1110-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-7-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Delay in diagnosis of intradural spinal tumors.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Manchester, Hope Hospital, Salford.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article