Paraganglioma of the ponytail in one case

Abstract

A 19-year-old patient with no significant medical or surgical pathological antecedents who presented 5-month-old chronic, intermittent low back pain that became more and more intense, aggravated by lumbar lungosciatalgia L5, with heaviness of the lower left limb and walking, without sphincteric disorders, nor saddle anesthesia, nor trophic disorders. Clinical examination showed a distal paresis of the foot ghe, the patient does not hold the maingazini, hypotone member. The osteo-tendinous reflexes were abolished, babinski positive, on the other hand the somatic examination was without particularities. The standard radiography of the lumbar spine was normal [1-3].