Epidural angiolipoma producing compression of the cauda equina.
Epidural angiolipomas are rare tumours and are histologically benign, but their myelographic and macroscopic appearance is malignant. Surgical results are satisfactory. A case is reported in a 48-year-old woman with a slowly progressive cauda equina compression syndrome in whom an epidural angiolipoma was successfully removed. The special feature of this case was a generalized severe spinal osteoporosis with a pathological fracture of a vertebral body at the level of the tumour.
D002420:Cauda Equina; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008067:Lipoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009408:Nerve Compression Syndromes / Q000209:etiology*; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery