Leukemia Presenting as Cauda Equina Syndrome

Syed Shumon, Georgia Ineson, Terence Chin, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Gareth Dobson, Priya Bhatnagar and Mohammed Husain

Department of Neuroscience, The Royal Victoria Infirmary, UK Department of Neuroscience, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

^*Correspondance to: Syed Shumon 

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Abstract:

Spontaneous Spinal Subdural Hematoma (sSDH) is a rare entity with an incidence of 0.1/100,000 patients. Patients commonly present with a sudden onset of back pain and progressive neurological deficit. In the majority of the cases, it is due to a hemorrhage at the thoracic spinal level of unknown aetiology. Management of such cases can present a treatment dilemma. The difficult decision of conservative vs. surgical management must be made in view of the presenting neurology and likely outcome. Here we present a case of the first presentation of leukemia presenting as query cauda equina syndrome due to a sSDH.

Keywords:

Back pain; Cauda equine syndrome; Sepsis; Acute myeloid leukemia; Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm

Cite the Article:

Shumon S, Ineson G, Chin T, Oikonomou K, Dobson G, Bhatnagar P, et al. Leukemia Presenting as Cauda Equina Syndrome. Ann Clin Case Rep. 2020; 5: 1843..