Spinal cord compression in a patient with a pain pump for failed back syndrome: a chalk-like precipitate mimicking a spinal cord neoplasm: case report.

Objective And Importance: The use of intrathecal morphine has been effective with few complications for chronic intractable pain of both benign and malignant origins. A rare but serious problem that exists is the formation of an inflammatory mass at the catheter tip of the pain pump.

Clinical Presentation: We report the case of a 67-year-old female patient with failed back syndrome who presented with sensory complaints and back pain.

Diffuse back pain and urological symptoms: recognizing tethered cord syndrome early.

Tethered cord syndrome (TCS) is a rare entity in adults, with only about 100 cases being reported in the literature. It is a syndrome in which patients have neurologic, urologic, and orthopedic signs and symptoms. We present a case of a 40-year-old man with back pain and urinary incontinence who was diagnosed with tethered cord syndrome.

Pilocytic astrocytoma presenting as an intrinsic brainstem tumor: case report and review of the literature.

Objective: Pilocytic astrocytomas are typically circumscribed, slow growing tumors found in children and young adults. This type of tumor can arise from various locations in the neuraxis. In the brainstem, pilocytic astrocytomas grow as dorsal exophytic masses.