Spinal cord
The spinal cord is the part of the CNS where tumours occasionally grow. It is also a place one can find various cysts.
Spinal cord, cross section
Differential diagnosis
General
Note: always consider reactive (piloid) gliosis
Congenital malformations
- Meningeomyleocele
- Diastematomyelia
- Thethered cord
Inflammatory lesions
- Myelitis
- Encephalomyelitis disseminata
- Abscess
- Histiocytosis
Vascular malformations
Cysts
- Enterogenous cyst
- Arachnoid cyst
- Syringomylia
low-grade neoplasms
- Pilocytic astrocytoma
- Ependymoma
- Hemangioblastoma
- Intramedullary schwannoma
- Diffuse Astrocytoma
- Subependymoma
- Myxopapillary ependymoma
- Paraganglioma
Malignant
- Glioblastoma
- Anaplastic ependymoma
- lymphomatoid granulomatosis
- Teratoma
- Metastasis.