Poriazova Elena G, Boykinova Oliana B, Ivanov Ivan S, Spasova Maria I, Bozhilov Georgi B, Kevorkyan Ani K, Novakov Stoyan S
Department of General and Clinical Pathology , Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Medical University of Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Folia Med (Plovdiv). 2017 Sep 1;59(3):357-361. doi: 10.1515/folmed-2017-0042.
Spinal neurofibroma is one of the rarest of the neoplasms involving the spinal cord or roots and occurs much less often than neurinoma, meningioma or glioma. The sixth pediatric case of solitary intramedullary tumor was described in 2013, according to B. Eljebbouri et al. We present a rare, difficult to diagnose and may-be the seventh pediatric case of solitary neurofibroma of the cauda equine in an 11-month-old infant. The patient underwent a laminectomy of T12, L1, L2 and L3, extirpation of intradural, intramedullary and extramedullary spinal cord tumor. The patient is fully recovered for 5 years of monitoring. Although rare, spinal neurofibromas in children should be diagnostically considered and radically treated for a favorable outcome.
