Abstract
Summary of Literature Review
The incidence of extranodal invasion of lymphoma is very low, and spinal compression as a clinical symptom rarely occurs in extranodal lymphoma.
Materials and Methods
A 37-year-old woman who complained of neck pain that had lasted for the past 3 months with no underlying disease visited the hospital and was treated conservatively with medication and physical therapy. Even though the patient was given an epidural injection 1 month prior to visiting our hospital, the pain lingered and the cervical myelopathy became aggravated, so the patient was initially diagnosed with epidural hematoma. This predisposed the patient to treatment strategies such as laminectomy and fusion, but the patient was ultimately diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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