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- Ganeshwaran Shivapathasundram, Vanessa Sammons, and Renata Bazina.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Liverpool Hospital, Level 5, New Clinical Building, Liverpool, NSW, 2170, Australia. g.shiva@live.com.au.
- Eur Spine J. 2016 May 1; 25 Suppl 1: 33-7.
AbstractWe report the case of a 44-year-old man who was found to have metastatic thymoma to his lumbar spine presenting as a spontaneous epidural haematoma. The man presented with back pain and cauda equina like symptoms in the absence of trauma, antiplatelet or anticoagulant agents. Following a laminectomy and excision of the epidural collection he made a full neurological recovery. Histopathology of the haematoma demonstrated metastatic thymoma. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such case of metastatic thymoma to the lumbar spine presenting as a spontaneous epidural collection. We believe, in all patients with spontaneous spinal epidural haematoma and a background of malignancy, histopathological analysis should be sought.
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