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CASE REPORT
Granulocytic sarcoma: a rare cause of sciatica
  1. Epaminondas Markos Valsamis1,
  2. Thomas Edward Glover2
  1. 1Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK
  2. 2Department of General Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK
  1. Correspondence to Epaminondas Markos Valsamis, markosvalsamis{at}gmail.com

Summary

We describe a case report of a man aged 56 years with a 4-month history of right-sided sciatica-type pain with subclinical disc prolapse evident on MRI. Worsening pain together with the appearance of a tender mass in his right buttock prompted further imaging, which demonstrated an infiltrative mass engulfing the lumbosacral plexus. This was later shown to be a granulocytic sarcoma on biopsy. Intervertebral disc herniation can be an incidental finding and is not always the cause of sciatica.

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-219009

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    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.