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A study of 100 cases of spinal tumors

One hundred cases of spinal tumors are studied concerning to the histological type, age, topography and evolution of the clinical manifestation. In the given material was identified a predominance of the tumors of the neural tissue and associated structures: neurinomas (16%), meningeomas (15%), ependymomas (4%) and astrocytomas (2%); following metastatic tumors (32%), tumors of mesenchymal tissue (16%): fibroma (2%), lipomas (2%), haemangioblastoma (4%), angiosarcoma (2%), angioma (1%), angioblastoma (1%), chordomas (2%), osteoblastoma (1%) and adamantinoid tumor (1%); tumors of lymphatic and haematopoietic tissue: plasmscytoma (6%), histocytic lymphoma (3%), limphocytic limphoma (2%), Hodgkin (1%) and unclassified limphomas (1%); teratomas: diferencied teratoma (1%).


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