Conus medullaris haemangioblastoma in a 23-year-old man with a 2-year history of back pain: Surgical management at a tertiary hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

[Accepted Case Report]

Haemangioblastomas account for less than 3% of all spinal cord tumours. Conus medullaris localization is extremely rare, only fifteen reported cases in the literature so far and we report the sixteenth. A 23-year old male presented with low back pain of 2 years, MRI demonstrated haemangioblastoma at conus medullaris. He consecutively developed a sense of incomplete urination with worsening of urinary urgency and worsening of back pain and underwent uneventful surgical resection with normalization of symptoms.  In resource-limited setups where there is no access to neuromonitoring or embolization, haemangioblastoma of conus medullaris could be resected safely by using cautious microsurgical skills.