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<journal-id>1029-3019</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[MEDISAN]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[MEDISAN]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1029-3019</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1029-30192022000600010</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Correlación entre aspectos clínicos, imagenológicos e histopatológicos en el diagnóstico de tumores y seudotumores raquídeos extramedulares]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Correlation between clinical, imaging, histological and pathological aspects in the diagnosis of spinal extramedular tumors and pseudotumors]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Díaz Galarza]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Yenys]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Pons Porrata]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Laura María]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Cala Iren]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mildredis]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Álvarez Cobas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Isabel]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Salomón López]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Javier Antonio]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Docente Infantil Sur Dr. Antonio María Béguez César  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Santiago de Cuba ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital General Docente Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Santiago de Cuba ]]></addr-line>
<country>Cuba</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>26</volume>
<numero>6</numero>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1029-30192022000600010&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1029-30192022000600010&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1029-30192022000600010&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN  Introducción:  Los tumores intradurales extramedulares son causa de morbilidad y mortalidad. Para identificarlos y analizarlos, la resonancia magnética resulta el método diagnóstico imagenológico de elección.  Objetivo:  Caracterizar a pacientes con tumores y seudotumores raquídeos intradurales extramedulares según variables clínicas, imagenológicas (por resonancia magnética) e histopatológicas.  Métodos:  Se efectuó un estudio observacional, descriptivo, longitudinal y prospectivo en 20 pacientes con diagnóstico clínico de sospecha de tumor o seudotumor intradural extramedular o no, confirmado mediante resonancia magnética, quienes fueron atendidos en el Departamento de Imagenología del Hospital General Docente Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso de Santiago de Cuba de enero del 2014 a igual mes del 2017, procedentes de los hospitales generales de esta provincia y de Guantánamo.  Resultados:  Existió una mayor frecuencia del sexo masculino (70,0 %), principalmente en las edades de 60 y más años (30,0 %), así como del dolor vertebral (100,0 %) y las alteraciones de los reflejos osteotendinosos (65,0 %) como síntomas y signos de los procesos neoplásicos. Según la intensidad de las señales captadas en la resonancia magnética, primaron los tumores isointensos en la secuencia T1 (70,0 %) y los hiperintensos e isointensos en la secuencia T2 (35,0 % en cada uno), sobre todo de localización dorsal (60,0 %). Asimismo, el diagnóstico clínico de sospecha más usual fue el de mielopatía compresiva (25,0 %), en tanto, entre los diagnósticos imagenológicos e histopatológicos sobresalieron las metástasis y los meningiomas.  Conclusiones:  La resonancia magnética ofrece una aproximación al diagnóstico definitivo de estos tumores, el cual es corroborado con el estudio histopatológico.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT  Introduction:  The intradural extraspinal tumors are morbidity and mortality cause. To identify and analyze them, the magnetic resonance is the imaging diagnostic means of election.  Objective:  To characterize patients with intradural extramedular spinal tumors and pseudotumors according to clinical, imaging (by magnetic resonance) histological and pathological variables.  Methods:  An observational, descriptive, longitudinal and prospective study was carried out in 20 patients with suspicious clinical diagnosis of intradural extraspinal tumor or pseudotumor or not, confirmed by means of magnetic resonance who were assisted in the Imaging Department of Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso Teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba from January, 2014 to the same month in 2017, coming from the general hospitals of this province and Guantánamo.  Results:  There was a higher frequency of the male sex (70.0 %), mainly 60 and more years (30.0 %), as well as of the vertebral pain (100.0 %) and disorders of the muscle stretch reflex (65.0 %) as symptoms and signs of the neoplasm processes. According to the intensity of the signs captured in the magnetic resonance, the isointense tumors prevailed in the sequence T1 (70,0 %) and the hyperintense and isointense in the sequence T2 (35.0 % in each one), mainly of dorsal localization (60.0 %). Also, the most common supicious clinical diagnosis was that of compressive myelopathy (25.0 %), as long as, among the imaging, histological and pathological diagnosis the metastasis and meningiomas were notable.  Conclusions:  The magnetic resonance offers an approach to the definitive diagnosis of these tumors, which is corroborated by means of the histological and pathological study.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[neoplasias de la médula espinal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[imagen de resonancia magnética]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[meningioma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[compresión de la médula espinal]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[neoplasms of the spinal cord]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[magnetic resonance image]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[meningioma]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[compression of the spinal cord]]></kwd>
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