Multiple perineural cysts in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar vertebrae of a mature individual

Jt Dis Relat Surg. 2021;32(1):262-266. doi: 10.5606/ehc.2021.77775. Epub 2021 Jan 6.

Abstract

A 54-year-old female patient was admitted to our outpatient clinic with back and low back pain. There were no remarkable physical or neurological findings in the two-year follow-up period of the patient. There were 39 lesions at 17 levels (mean diameter: 5.93±2.77 [range, 1.00 to 12.2] mm) in entire vertebra in magnetic resonance imaging and more than one perineural cysts were observed adjacent to the same nerve root at several vertebrae levels. In this patient, conservative treatment was preferred.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cervical Vertebrae* / diagnostic imaging
  • Cervical Vertebrae* / pathology
  • Conservative Treatment / methods
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Low Back Pain / diagnosis
  • Low Back Pain / etiology
  • Lumbar Vertebrae* / diagnostic imaging
  • Lumbar Vertebrae* / pathology
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
  • Middle Aged
  • Myelography / methods*
  • Tarlov Cysts* / diagnostic imaging
  • Tarlov Cysts* / pathology
  • Tarlov Cysts* / physiopathology
  • Thoracic Vertebrae* / diagnostic imaging
  • Thoracic Vertebrae* / pathology