title: [Vertebral hemangioma with neurologic signs. Clinical presentation, results of a survey by the French Society of Neurosurgery].
abstract: 45 cases of vertebral hemangiomas with neurologic involvement are reported. This series corresponds to the french experience between 1969 and 1988 (series of the "Société Française de Neurochirurgie" (S.F.N.)). In this report the clinical presentation and the results of the radiological examination are detailed. Local vertebral pain was present in half of the cases. The neurological symptoms were related to spinal cord compression in 33/45 of the patients and to radicular suffering in the other cases. Evolution of the neurological symptoms appeared to be slow: the mean evolution time before diagnosis was of 10 months. Hemangioma involved the thoracic column in 73% of the cases. Neurologic symptoms was due to a diffuse narrowing of the spinal canal in 28.8% of the cases, to a local bony expansion in 60% of the cases. Hemangioma was found to involve the whole vertebra in 44.4% of the cases, the vertebral body alone in 24.4% of the cases and the posterior arch alone in 22.2% of the cases. An incomplete involvement of both vertebral body and posterior arch was found in 6.6% of the cases. 2.2% of the cases corresponded to pure epidural hemangioma. Preoperative diagnosis was established in 58% of the patients. In these cases, the diagnosis was based on standard radiography and CT datas. Results of the S.F.N. serie are compared with those of the main series of the literature.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurochirurgie, C.H.U. Henri Mondor 51, Créteil.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Djindjian
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Badiane
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D013115:Spinal Canal; D013118:Spinal Cord Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Hémangiomes vertébraux avec signes neurologiques. Le contexte clinique, résultats de l'enquête de la S.F.N.