SYMPTOMATIC SPINAL EPIDURAL LIPOMATOSIS IN A PATIENT WITH CUSHINGS-DISEASE

Spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) is a rare complication of iatrogenic Gushing's syndrome (CS). There is only one case reported of symptomat ic SEL in association with endogenous CS. We present a patient with co mpressive myeloradiculopathy due to SEL and Gushing's disease and sugg est that in SEL of hypercortisolism, the excess of corticosteroids is the stimulus for the growth of adipose tissue in the spinal canal and that treatment should be aimed at correcting the endocrine abnormality .