[Spinal cord intramedullary cavernous haemangioma: case report].
The intramedullary cavernous haemangioma is a low flow vascular anomaly curable through surgical resection, howewer if the precocious diagnosis and the appropriate therapeutics are not done it can cause serious neurological sequels. It is extremely rare the occurrence of intramedullary cavernous haemangioma. We report the case of a 33 year-old woman patient with an intramedullary cavernous angioma at T6-T7, that presented a clinical picture of slow and progressive spinal cord compression, with an important recent worsening. The magnetic resonance of the thoracic column demonstrated a T6 - T7 a intramedullary expansive lesion wich presented hypointense on T1 and discretely hyperintense on T2 with a small hypointense area in the two sequences. The patient was submitted to late surgical treatment and did not presented neurological recovery. The clinical and imagelogy pictures, and the importance of instituing precociously the appropriate treatment of this entity is reviewed, analyzed and discussed.
Colonetti
Juliano
J
Serviço de Neurocirurgia, Hospital Santa Casa Misericórdia de Pelotas, RS, Brasil.
Costa
Fernando de Oliveira
Fde O
Lima
André Geraldo Dal Bó
AG
Sanchez
Giancarlo Bettin
GB
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D020786:Hemangioma, Cavernous, Central Nervous System / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery