• World Neurosurg · Jun 2020

    Case Reports

    C6-T1 INTRADURAL EXTRAMEDULLARY VENTRAL MENINGEAL MELANOCYTOMA RESECTED VIA ANTERIOR CORPECTOMY WITH RECONSTRUCTION: A CASE REPORT.

    • Mehmet Yigit Akgun, Cihan Isler, and Mustafa Onur Ulu.
    • Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: myigitakgun@gmail.com.
    • World Neurosurg. 2020 Jun 1; 138: 457460457-460.

    BackgroundMelanocytic lesions of the nervous system are thought to arise from leptomeningeal melanocytes, which are derived from neural crest and include diffuse melanocytosis, melanocytomas, and malignant melanomas. Meningeal melanocytomas are extremely rare benign lesions. The usual treatment of intradural extramedullary melanocytomas involves surgical removal through a posterior approach using a laminectomy or laminotomy.Case DescriptionWe present a 30-year-old female harboring a C6-T1 ventrally located intradural extramedullary lesion compressing the cord anteriorly. The lesion was totally resected via an anterior approach with oblique corpectomy even if the usual treatment involves surgical removal through a posterior approach using a laminectomy or laminotomy.ConclusionsThere is no evidence of recurrence at 4-year follow-up records of the patient. We discuss the surgical approach of these rare lesions.Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…