Cavernous hemangioma of the thoracic spinal cord
- 1 June 1988
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Neuroradiology
- Vol. 30 (3) , 261-264
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00341840
Abstract
A 25-year-old woman presented with a four-year history of progressive right-lower-extremity weakness and atrophy and a left hemisensory deficit was found. Metrizamide-enhanced spinal CT scan showed an intramedullary lesion at the level of T1-T2; this had expanded the cord in fusiform fashion but showed no evidence of a cystic component. Surgical resection was performed and the pathological diagnosis was cavernous hemangioma. Two and one-half years later, her left hemisensory deficit was worsening and a spinal MRI showed high signal intensity mass in the region of the previous surgery consistent with chronic hematoma which was re-evacuated with some improvement in the patient's neurological condition.Keywords
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