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Here a case is presented of a patient referred to a neurosurgical center for a biopsy of a presumed neoplastic conus tumor. However, through the collaboration of a multidisciplinary team, further diagnoses were considered. After thorough investigation, two conditions were diagnosed: venous congestive myelopathy secondary to inferior vena cava agenesis and spinal neurosarcoidosis. 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