Symptoms of lumbar bone tumors

summary

There are many kinds of lumbar tumors, including benign and malignant. No matter what kind of early lumbar tumors, the symptom is low back pain. Many patients don't pay much attention to it at first. They think that they are tired or flashing, and they can't get the best treatment time in the early stage. Many people wait until they can't stand the pain or they are paralyzed. At this time, they are often in the late stage, Or it has been transferred, which greatly increases the difficulty of treatment and the pain of patients. The symptom of lumbar bone tumor? Let's talk about it

Symptoms of lumbar bone tumors

(1) Benign tumors of lumbar spine mainly include vertebral hemangioma, osteoid osteoma, aneurysmal bone cyst and eosinophilic granuloma. In the early stage, this kind of tumor may have no symptoms or only slight pain and discomfort in the waist. With the development of tumor, the local pressure and edema caused by the tumor gradually aggravate the low back pain. There are tenderness and percussion pain in the tumor. In some cases, spinal canal stenosis can be caused by tumor expansion and vertebral compression changes. Nerve root compression symptoms and cauda equina nerve stimulation or compression symptoms can appear. Sacral sensory abnormalities may occur, and even cause paraplegia.

(2) Primary malignant tumors of lumbar vertebrae are more common. Because of its ferocity and rapid development, local pressure rises suddenly, and unbearable severe pain may appear, especially at night. The use of general analgesics can not reduce the pain, can quickly appear cauda equina symptoms or paraplegia. In patients with higher malignancy, systemic cachexia like symptoms and signs appear soon. Ewing's tumor and osteosarcoma are the main types of these tumors.

(3) hematogenous metastasis, lymphatic metastasis and local spread are the main routes of metastasis to lumbar spine. Metastatic tumors with osteolytic characteristics are more common in breast, lung, thyroid and kidney tumors. The metastatic tumors mainly come from pancreas, nasopharynx and osteosarcoma.

matters needing attention

Whether it is lumbar spinal canal tumor or lumbar pain, patients need to pay attention to it and go to the relevant specialized hospital neurosurgery for examination and diagnosis in time, and actively cooperate with doctors to take relevant treatment to ensure the recovery of the disease.