Posterior mediastinal capillary hemangioma with extradural extension resembling neuroblastoma.
We present two patients with posterior mediastinal capillary hemangiomas that were paraspinal and had intraspinal extension. Computed tomography demonstrated the strikingly hypervascular nature of these tumors, distinguishing them from neuroblastoma.
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Department of Radiology, 510 So Kingshighway Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
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Dehner
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D018324:Hemangioma, Capillary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008479:Mediastinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D009447:Neuroblastoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D011859:Radiography; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*