Spinal Cord Involvement in Pediatric-Onset Metabolic Disorders With Mendelian and Mitochondrial Inheritance.

Previous reviews have described the features of brain involvement in pediatric-onset metabolic disorders with Mendelian and mitochondrial inheritance, but only a few have focused on spinal cord abnormalities. An increasing number of metabolic disorders with Mendelian and mitochondrial inheritance in children with predominant spinal cord involvement has been recognized. Spinal cord involvement may be isolated or may occur more frequently with brain involvement.

[Pneumorachis: report of three rare causes].

The presence of gas in the spinal canal or pneumorachis is a rare imaging finding, typically incidental. Pneumorachis may be due to several degenerative, traumatic, infectious, tumoral or iatrogenic etiologies. We report three cases of pneumorachis in patients with lumbar back pain.

[Spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma: a report of 3 cases].

We report MR imaging features in 3 cases of spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma, a potential neurosurgical emergency.

[Elastofibroma: imaging features].

Elastofibroma dorsi is a rare benign and slow growing fibro-proliferative lesion of unknown pathogenesis. It has a characteristic location (periscapular region) and a specific imaging appearance (songraphy, CT, MRI) allowing accurate prospective diagnosis. The recognition of this benign lesion avoids unnecessary biopsy and/or surgery.

[Abdominal wall abscess as the presenting sign in carcinoma of the colon: report of 4 cases].

Purpose: We report four cases of unusual presentation of colonic cancer revealed by an abscess of the abdominal wall.

Materials And Methods: Our study included 3 men and 1 women ranging in age from 33 to 66 years presenting with abdominal wall abscess (in the left anterior abdominal wall in 2 patients and in the quadratus lumborum muscle in the other 2 patients). Our cases were listed from the departments of radiology and abdominal surgery of Sahloul hospital from 1995 through 2000.