title: Cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma with MRI-proven haemorrhages.
abstract: Two contrasting cases of cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma in young female patients are reported. One patient had a 3-year course of step-wise progressive tetraparesis; at each of the five events intramedullary bleeding from a cryptic vascular malformation at C6-7 level was diagnosed by MRI. The other patient presented with one episode which led to MRI diagnosis of a vascular malformation at the C2 level. Both patients eventually underwent complete surgical excision of the angioma with subsequent steady improvement of the neurological deficit.
authors.affiliation: Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Mehdorn
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stolke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006406:Hematoma / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D012008:Recurrence; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology