Tumors of the Lower Spinal Cord Associated with Increased Intracranial Pressure and Papilledema

I NCREASED intracranial pressure and papillede.ma are usually caused by an expansive intracranial lesion, although they are also sometimes encountered in systemic diseases. The occurrence of increased intracranial pressure and papillcdenm with tumors of the lumbar-dorsal spinal cord, however, is rare. In a recent review Glasauer 3 found 18 such cases to which he a(ldcd one of his own. In addition to these 19 cases, four snore have been reported by G. Borghi amt F. Corridori, 1 J. Dechaume, et al., 2 G. Lazorthes and J. Lac6p6re, (cited by Deehaume 2) and J. E. Paillas, et al. 6 The rar i ty of these cases and the as-yetunknown cause of the syndrome tins induced us to report three snore cases. These occurred in a series of 289 tumors of the lower spinal cord treated between 1935 and 1965, and are summarized in Table 1.