Case Report
Osteochondroma of Occipital Bone Projecting into Foramen Magnum, A Rare Site for a Common Tumor-A Case Report
Gunjan Jindal, Amit Shrivastava*, Akarshit Mahajan and Maichael Goodwin
Department of Radiodiagnosis, MMIMSR, Mullana, Haryana, India
*Corresponding author: Dr. Amit Shrivastava, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiodiagnosis, MMIMSR, Mullana, Haryana, India E-mail- dr.amitsrivastava@gmail.com Phone No- +919100750718
Article Information: Submission: 04/08/2023; Accepted: 25/08/2023; Published: 28/08/2023
Copyright: © 2023 Jindal G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A 15 year old male with no comorbidities presented with complaints of electric shock like sensation in nape of the neck associated with dizziness, involuntary movement in right upper limb and occasional headache presented to neurology department. On investigations, osteochondroma arising from occipital bone was diagnosedwhich was projecting into foramen magnum causing severe compression of spinal cord. Only one such case has been described previously in literature. The patient was successfully treated with surgery and had relief of symptoms on follow up.
Keywords: Osteochondroma, Occipital bone, Foramen magnum, Spinal cord compression