Yangtze Medicine, 2018, 2, 114-128 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ym ISSN Online: 2475-7349 ISSN Print: 2475-7330 DOI: 10.4236/ym.2018.22013 Jun. 11, 2018 114 Yangtze Medicine Child Spinal Cord Compression without Trauma about 113 Cases in Senegal Nourou Dine A. Bankole 1,2 , Moustapha Ndiaye 2 , Thioub Mbaye 3 , Youssoupha Sakho 4 , Momar Code Ba 3 1 Departement de Neurochirurgie, Hopital des Spécialités, Rabat, Morrocco 2 Département de Neurologie, CHNU de Fann, Dakar, Senegal 3 Département de Neurochirurgie, CHNU de Fann, Dakar, Senegal 4 Departement de Neurochirurgie, HOGGY de, Dakar, Senegal Abstract Introduction: No-trauma spinal cord compressions are serious conditions not often described in children population. This study will discuss the epide- miological, clinical, biology and radiology assessment, the etiologies, the the- rapeutic and evolutionary aspects of this condition in children in Senegal. Pa- tients and Methods: 113 children aged between 15 months and 18 years were managed in a 10 years period (from January 2005 to July 2015) for a non-traumatic spinal cord compression (average 8.3 years). Results: There was 66 males (58%) and 47 females (42%) with sex ratio of 1.40. The main reasons for consultation were spinal deformity (90 %). The syndrome was complete in 52 patients (46%) and incomplete in 61 patients (54%). Plain ra- diography performed in 63 patients. The CT scan was performed in 21 pa- tients and myelography performed in 4 patients. MRI was performed in 22 patients. There was intradural extramedullary process (33.33%), the extra- dural lesions (14.28%) and intramedullary process (28.57%). Dorsal lesions were predominant (46%) followed by the lumbar spine (27%). The majority of the etiology was Pott’s disease (80%) followed by tumors (17%). Spondylitis to banal germs (2%) and parasitic spinal cord compression (1%) were rare. The histology of 6 patients was revealed 5% neurofibroma Type II, 5% extrame- dullary intradermal arachnoid cyst, 5% intramedullary arachnoid cyst with cytochemistry of the CSF—like content, 5% Anaplastic pilocytic astrocytoma, 5% ganglioneuroma I terminal cone and 5% meningothelial meningioma. Pott’s disease has been cured by TB chemotherapy associated with a corset in 88.89% of cases. 2 patients of this group had benefited fixation after lami- nectomy. 68% of the patients had a favorable recovery, and 20% had com- How to cite this paper: Bankole, N.D.A., Ndiaye, M., Mbaye, T., Sakho, Y. and Ba, M.C. (2018) Child Spinal Cord Compres- sion without Trauma about 113 Cases in Senegal. Yangtze Medicine, 2, 114-128. https://doi.org/10.4236/ym.2018.22013 Received: November 17, 2017 Accepted: June 8, 2018 Published: June 11, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access