http://www.appliedradiology.com RSS Feed on Applied Radiologyhttp://www.appliedradiology.com//Issues/2012/07/Cases/Anaplastic-spinal-cord-ependymoma.aspx<p>A 29-year-old pregnant woman presented to her primary care physician with mild right leg weakness and numbness 6 weeks before delivery. The symptoms were attributed to her pregnancy and improved somewhat after delivery, although she continued to have minor symptoms. Approximately 6 months later, her symptoms worsened abruptly. She presented to a neurologist with bilateral lower extremity numbness and impaired vibratory sensation and proprioception. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination of the lumbar spine was performed (Figure 1), which prompted further MRI of the entire neural axis (Figure 2).</p>Tuesday, 10 Jul 2012 13:00:17 GMT