A CASE REPORT OF SPINAL HOURGLASS TUMOR

Abstract

A 51 year old woman was admitted with the chief complaints of left upper arm and left anterior chest pains. The clinical X-rays revealed a mediastinal tumor. The computed tomography of the chest showed an hourglassshaped tumor developing in the vertebral canal and the vertebral foramen of Th3.
The patient was operated on with transthoracicapproach. By enlarging the vertebral foramen of Th3, the Th3, the tumor was dissected totally. The pathological diagnosis was neurinoma. It is clinically important to select the apropriate approach for treatment of spinal hourglass tumor. The computed tomography of the spine provided the exact location and the mode of development of the tumor, and was the mot useful diagnostic tool.