Hemangioma calcificans of the spinal cord.
A 27-year-old woman presented with hemotomyelia during pregnancy. Needle drainage of the spinal cord was followed by relief of symptoms. Symptoms recurred during a second pregnancy 4 years later and she presented with an avascular mass in the midcervical spinal cord. This lesion proved to be hemangioma calcificans, a densely calcified and ossified variant of cavernous angioma.
D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology*; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*