title: [Spinal meningeal hemorrhage due to tumors: a report on 5 cases with arteriography (author's transl)].
abstract: Meningeal hemorrhages in 5 patients with tumors of the cauda equina are reported. In each case there were signs from the brain area which led to a false diagnosis of ruptured intracranial aneurism, before attention was drawn to the cauda equina by a relapse with hemorrhage or other signs. The value of medullary arteriography for positively diagnosing cauda equina tumors, and their differential diagnosis from medullary arteriovenous malformations--principal cause of spinal meningeal hemorrhages--is discussed, as well as the necessity for systematically evoking this topography in children and young adults when arteriographic exploration is negative.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001165:Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000175:diagnosis; D002420:Cauda Equina; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004806:Ependymoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008578:Meninges / Q000098:blood supply; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000098:blood supply*; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis
vernacular_title: Les hémorragies méningées spinales tumorales. A propos de 5 cas artériographiés.