title: Intraosseous vertebral haemangioblastoma: MRI.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead, London, UK.
authors.forename: J N
authors.initials: JN
authors.lastname: Higgins
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Lammie
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Savy
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Stevens
mesh_terms: 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*