Causes, Symptoms and Signs of Spinal Tumors

What are the Causes of Spinal Tumors?

The causes of spinal tumors are mostly unknown. However, the following factors are observed in most patients with spinal tumor.

• Immunodeficiency: Spinal cord lymphomas, are more common in people with compromised immune systems
• Genetic trait: There is a higher incidence of spinal tumors in some families suggesting that there is an associated genetic component to spinal tumors.
• Neurofibromatosis Type 2: It is a hereditary disorder in which non cancerous tumors develop in the nervous system.

• Von Hippel Lindau disease: This is a rare, hereditary condition in which both noncancerous and cancerous tumors develop in the Brain, Spinal cord, Retina, Adrenal glands and Kidneys.

What are the Symptoms & Signs of Spinal Tumors?

• Back pain. This is the most frequent symptom of both benign and malignant spinal tumors. Back pain is a result of compression on the spine, nerve roots, bones or blood vessels of the spine.
• Muscle weakness
• Numbness or loss of feeling in certain areas of the body
• Pain or difficulty in standing or walking
• Decreased sensitivity to pain, heat and cold
• Loss of bowel or bladder control
• Paralysis
• Spinal deformities
• Erectile dysfunction
• Wastage of muscles

References:

1. Tumors of the spine - (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4757655/)
2. Pediatric tumors of the spine - (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797470/)
3. AANS Patients Neurosurgical Conditions and Treatments - Spinal Tumors - (https://www.aans.org/Patients/Neurosurgical-Conditions-and-Treatments/Spinal-Tumors)
4. American Cancer Society-What Are Adult Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors? - (https://www.cancer.org/cancer/brain-spinal-cord-tumors-adults/about/what-are-brain-spinal-tumors.html)
5. The University of Texas- MD Anderson Cancer Center- Spinal Tumors - (https://www.mdanderson.org/cancer-types/spinal-tumors.html)
6. U.S. National Library of Medicine- Spinal tumor - (https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001403.htm)

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