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Pediatria Polska - Polish Journal of Paediatrics
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Case report

Diagnostic difficulties in the detection of spinal osteoblastoma in a child

Małgorzata Skuza
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Teresa Stachowicz-Stencel

Pediatr Pol 2018; 93 (1): 98–100
Online publish date: 2018/03/19
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We describe a case of a 15-year-old boy with low back pain that progressed and subsequently developed into unilateral lower limb numbness. An X-ray study was inconclusive, but a CT study showed a vertebral body mass with intravertebral space narrowing. An additional MRI study displayed compression of the spinal roots. The child demanded surgical management. A histological examination from the excised tumour revealed osteoblastoma.
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spine tumour, osteoblastoma, low back pain