Intraosseous vertebral haemangioblastoma: MRI.
A 30-year-old man with low back pain and gradual onset of cord compression was found to have a highly vascular extradural tumour in the lower thoracic region. Involvement of the right pedicle and a large part of the body of T9 suggested a vertebral haemangioma, but histology revealed haemangioblastoma. One case of an intraosseous haemangioblastoma has been described previously; we present the features of another case shown by MRI and discuss the differentiation between haemangioma and haemangioblastoma.
Higgins
J N
JN
Department of Radiology, Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, UK.
Lammie
G A
GA
Savy
L E
LE
Taylor
W J
WJ
Stevens
J M
JM
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D018325:Hemangioblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology*