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Table 2 Clinical features of the patients at presentation (N = 97)

From: Spinal biopsies: a clinicopathologic review of 53 cases diagnosed between 2011 and 2018 at a tertiary hospital in Kampala, Uganda

Clinical presentation

n (%)

Weakness of limbs

31 (32.0)

Back pain

19 (19.6)

Paralysis

17 (17.5)

Bladder symptoms

8 (8.2)

Paraplegia

8 (8.2)

Spinal cord compression

5 (5.2)

Loss of sensation

4 (4.1)

Hyperreflexia

4 (4.1)

Stool incontinence

1 (1.0)

  1. Some of the patients had more than one clinical feature