Sacrococcygeal ganglioneuroma

J Spinal Disord Tech. 2002 Jun;15(3):265-8. doi: 10.1097/00024720-200206000-00018.

Abstract

Ganglioneuromas are benign slow-growing masses that can be treated with complete surgical extirpation without any adjuvant therapy. Such lesions involving the sacrococcygeal region are exceedingly rare. The authors present the case of a 70-year-old woman with a sacrococcygeal ganglioneuroma treated by total en bloc resection. This patient also had a previous coccygeal fracture. To the authors' knowledge, there are no other reports of ganglioneuroma in association with a history of trauma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Female
  • Ganglioneuroma / pathology*
  • Ganglioneuroma / surgery*
  • Humans
  • Nervous System Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Nervous System Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Sacrococcygeal Region / innervation*
  • Sympathetic Nervous System / pathology