Aggressive hemangioma of the thoracic spine
| Autor: | Wesley B. Schrock, Stephanie C. Tanner, Raun J. Wetzel, Majid Khan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
| Předmět: |
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Thoracic Vertebrae Diagnosis Differential Hemangioma Spinal cord compression medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging cardiovascular diseases Aged Paraplegia Spinal Neoplasms medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Angiography Magnetic resonance imaging medicine.disease Spinal cord Magnetic Resonance Imaging eye diseases Vertebra Surgery body regions Treatment Outcome medicine.anatomical_structure Neuroradiology Thoracic vertebrae Female sense organs Radiology Differential diagnosis Tomography X-Ray Computed business Spinal Cord Compression |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Radiology Case Reports. 5 |
| ISSN: | 1943-0922 |
| Popis: | Vertebral hemangiomas are common lesions and usually considered benign. A rare subset of them, however, are characterized by extra-osseous extension, bone expansion, disturbance of blood flow, and occasionally compression fractures and thereby referred to as aggressive hemangiomas. We present a case of a 67-year-old woman with progressive paraplegia and an infiltrative mass of T4 vertebra causing mass effect on the spinal cord. Multiple conventional imaging modalities were utilized to suggest the diagnosis of aggressive hemangioma. Final pathologic diagnosis after decompressive surgery confirmed the diagnosis of an osseous hemangioma. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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