An Intramuscular Epidermal Cyst of Erector Spinae Muscles: A Case Report

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Jong Han Gill Myeong Jin Ko Seong Hyun Wui Seung Won Park

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Seung Won Park
Department of Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea

A B S T R A C T

An intramuscular epidermal cyst without subcutaneous involvement is extremely rare. The patient presented with low back pain. Spinal magnetic resonance imaging indicated spindle-shaped mass in the right erector spinae muscles located at L3 to L5 level without any connection with subcutaneous tissue. The patient underwent operation for removal of intramuscular cystic lesion. The tumor was totally removed and pathologically confirmed with epidermal cyst. Unlike typical epidermal cyst, the patient had a characteristic clinical manifestation of mild low back pain without palpable mass and local tenderness.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 16, Mar 2020
Accepted: Mon 06, Apr 2020
Published: Wed 08, Apr 2020

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© 2023 Seung Won Park . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.03.09