Breast cancer with osseous metastasis and herniated lumbar disc A cautionary tale
✍ Scribed by Brian I. Carr; Robert Goodkin
- Book ID
- 101326305
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
A 39-year-old white woman with breast cancer, metastatic to her skeleton, developed low back and left lower extremity pain and lower extremity weakness. A bone scan evidenced increased radioisotope activity in her lumbar spine and a computed tomography (Cr) scan showed a lesion of the LA vertebra. Because of myelogmphic findings of a extradural defect at the LA-5 disc space and the possibility of a herniated disc causing the patient's pain and neurologic deficit in her lower extremities, the patient underwent surgery and a large herniated IA-5 disc was removed. As a consequence, the patient experienced relief of the lower extremity pain and return of strength in her lower extremities. She died a considerable time later from refractory hypercalcemia.