This patient had a history of worsening bilateral leg numbness and was found with neuroimaging to have an extra-medullary, intradural thoracic mass.
November 2009 Archives
The patient was a 35 year old woman who apparently suffered a cardiac event at home. She arrived at the hospital obtunded with minimal brainstem reflexes. Two days after admission she developed V-fib and became completely unresponsive. An MRI at this time showed severe anoxic changes. She was pronounced dead 12 days after the initial event.
