Spinal cord
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The spinal cord is the part of the CNS where tumours occasionally grow. It is also a place one can find various cysts.
Differential diagnosis
General
Note: always consider reactive (piloid) gliosis
Congenital malformations
Inflammatory lesions
Vascular malformations
Cysts
low-grade neoplasms
- Pilocytic astrocytoma
- Ependymoma
- Hemangioblastoma
- Intramedullary schwannoma
- Diffuse Astrocytoma
- Subependymoma
- Myxopapillary ependymoma
- Paraganglioma