Medknow Publications on behalf of the Neurological Society of India
Abstract
The case of a previously healthy 24-year-old man diagnosed with
extradural thoracic granulocytic sarcoma with no evidence of bone
marrow or other hematological involvement is described. The tumor was
removed totally by microsurgery. The histopathological examination was
consistent with granulocytic sarcoma. Granulocytic sarcomas are most
commonly found in the context of an acute myelogenous leukemia or in
chronic myelogenous leukemia. They rarely have been reported in
otherwise healthy patients without any evidence of systemic disease. A
review of the literature revealed only 14 more nonleukaemic cases with
granulocytic sarcoma causing thoracic spinal cord compression