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Epidural lipomatosis: case report and literature review

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We report a case of symptomatic epidural lipomatosis in a 36-year-old man following a heart lung transplant and 3.5 years of steroid medication. A review of the pertinent literature emphasises the importance of including this diagnosis in the differential diagnosis of patients receiving steroid medication or markedly obese patients with back pain or symptoms suggesting spinal cord or cauda equina compression.

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  1. Department of Radiology, Virenow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353, Berlin, Germany

    J. Hierholzer, G. Benndorf, B. Podrabsky, B. Sander, R. Sörensen, R. Siekmann & R. Felix

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Virchow-Klinikum, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Augustenburger Platz 1, D-13353, Berlin, Germany

    T. Lehmann & G. H. Schneider

  3. Department of Neuropathology, Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    G. Stoltenburg

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Hierholzer, J., Benndorf, G., Lehmann, T. et al. Epidural lipomatosis: case report and literature review. Neuroradiology 38, 343–348 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00596585

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