What are the symptoms of spinal tumors?

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Spinal tumor refers to the primary and secondary tumors in the spine. The overall incidence of primary spinal tumors is about 0.4%. The vast majority of adolescent spinal tumors are benign, while young and middle-aged patients are more likely to have malignant tumors. Benign tumors mostly involved posterior structures, while malignant tumors mostly involved vertebral bodies. What are the symptoms of spinal tumors? Let's talk about it

What are the symptoms of spinal tumors?

Pain is an important symptom of spinal malignant tumor. The disease is intermittent at the beginning, and then develops into persistent and obvious at night. Late pain aggravation, affect work, rest and sleep, need to use strong analgesics. Spinal malignant tumor can also cause radiation pain, according to the different parts, can have neck and shoulder pain, intercostal neuralgia and lumbocrural pain.

Sacral segment (spinal cord cone and cauda equina injury): spinal cord cone injury generally does not appear limb paralysis, visible gluteal muscle atrophy, anal reflex disappeared, perineal saddle like feeling disappeared. There is a urination center in the conus medullaris. After injury, the reflex bladder can not be established, and the rectal sphincter relaxes, resulting in urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction.

Lumbomegaly (l1-s2): the knee, ankle reflex and testicular reflex disappeared due to the more chance of thoracolumbar spinal fracture. The abdominal wall reflex was not affected, because the spinal cord center lost control of the bladder and anal sphincter, and the defecation and urination disorders were more prominent.

matters needing attention

Develop good posture habits, pay attention to keep warm, prevent the invasion of wind and cold, protect the cervical spine, lumbar spine, thoracic spine, etc., reduce and avoid radiation, especially in the period of adolescent bone development. ⑤ Avoid trauma, especially the epiphysis of the long bone in adolescence. Strengthen physical exercise, enhance physique, improve the resistance to disease, enhance immune function, prevent virus infection.