One Example of Osteochondoroma Generating in the Cervical Vertebrae with Spinal Cord Symptoms

Abstract

A case of osteochondroma in the cervical vertebrae with spinal cord symptoms is presented.
A 13-year-old girl experienced enucleation of three degrees (arm right side front, right hand, and both knees) with multiple osteochondroma. Since two months before hospitalization, she had been aware of numbness from the arm on the right to the forearm. At a month before hospitalization, she became aware of difficult maintenance of chopsticks and tendency to fall when walking. She therefore came for examination. It rerealed a tumor deriving from arcus vertebrae, which was pressing the cervical vertebral canal. She was hospitalized. The tumor was found tobe generating from the C5 arcus vertebrae, and spinal cord symptoms appeared. Enucleation of the tumor appeared, and the symptoms improved. The pathology diagnosis was osteochondroma.
Osteochondroma is known well as benign tumor occurring in the metaphysis, and rarely originates in the cervical vertebrae. We report a case of osteochondroma with spinal cord symptoms, adding some bibliographical consideration.