Affiliations: Department of Neurosurgery, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate
Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Note: [] Correspondence: Dr. Raj Kumar, Department of Neurosurgery,
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rae Bareli Road,
226014, Lucknow, India. Tel.: +91 0522 249 4741; Fax: +91 0522 266 8017;
2668129; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Intramedullary spinal cord abscesses are uncommon lesions. Forty
percent of all such abscesses occur before 20 yr of age. Patients with acute
onset of symptoms and signs have a graver prognosis. This generally occurs in
the setting of systemic bacteremia. A case of large intramedullary spinal cord
abscess extending up to the terminal spinal canal in a 6-month-old male baby
who developed flaccid paraplegia without an evidence of systemic infection or
septicemia or anatomical defect is reported. The possibility of infection of an
epidermoid in such cases cannot ruled out.
