Abstract
Pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) is a disease of the joints which uncommonly involves the spine. We present a 70-year-old woman with radicular symptoms who was found to have a mass arising from a lumbar zygapophyseal joint with extension into the spinal canal. Following gross-total excision of the mass, histology revealed PVNS. One month after surgery, the patient had no symptoms and there was no evidence of residual or recurrent disease.
MeSH terms
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Aged
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Decompression, Surgical
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Female
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Humans
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Laminectomy
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Leg
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Lumbar Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging*
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Lumbar Vertebrae / surgery
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Pain / etiology
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Radiography
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Spinal Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
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Spinal Diseases / pathology*
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Spinal Diseases / surgery
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Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / complications
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Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / diagnostic imaging*
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Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / pathology*
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Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular / surgery