• Joint Bone Spine · Mar 2002

    Review Case Reports

    Spinal epidural lipomatosis revealing endogenous Cushing's syndrome.

    • Dominique Dumont-Fischer, Anne-Christine Rat, Nathalie Saidenberg-Kermanac'h, Sylvana Laurent, Régis Cohen, and Marie-Christophe Boissier.
    • Rheumatology Department, CHU Avicenne, Bobigny, France.
    • Joint Bone Spine. 2002 Mar 1; 69 (2): 222-5.

    AbstractSpinal epidural lipomatosis is defined as accumulation of nonencapsulated fat within the spinal canal. It occurs chiefly in patients on long-term glucocorticoid therapy or in obese patients without any other detectable cause. We report the second case of spinal epidural lipomatosis revealing endogenous Cushing's syndrome.

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