VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS AND VASCULAR TUMORS INVOLVING THE SPINAL CORD
- 1 September 1941
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 46 (3) , 444-463
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1941.02280210070006
Abstract
Relatively little has appeared in the literature concerning the vascular malformations and vascular tumors which affect the spinal cord, and certainly no very large series of cases has been studied. These space-occupying lesions, although not frequently encountered, form a very definite part of any large series of intraspinal surgical lesions. Rasmussen, Kernohan and Adson,1in a review of 557 intraspinal lesions, found that 8.5 per cent belonged to the group of extramedullary vascular tumors and that of 64 intramedullary neoplasms 7.5 per cent were of vascular origin. Individual case studies have appeared from time to time and will be referred to as they relate to the subject. The present study of 46 cases in which the treatment was surgical concerns particularly the pathologic aspects of these tumors and tumor-like formations. CLASSIFICATION The classification in table 1 is suggested by the cases which we have studied. It must be remembered,This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: