title: Osteoid osteoma in the thorasic spine.
abstract: Osteoid osteoma is a benign skeletal neoplasm composed of osteoid and woven bone. The majority of the lesions arise in the cortex of long bones. Osteoid osteoma of the spine is a rare primary spine tumor and those located at the thoracal spine are even rarer. The usual treatment involves complete resection, including the nidus, or alternatively radiofrequency percutaneous ablation is performed. The authors present a 32-year-old female with an unusual localization of the osteoid osteoma in the thoracal spine where imaging modalities were not conclusive for the diagnosis. The T1 vertebra lesion was successfully resected via a posterior approach with T1 laminectomy, including right side C7 and T1 foraminotomies, and vertebroplasty were performed. Histopathology reported the lesion as an osteoid osteoma.
authors.affiliation: Başkent University, Istanbul Teaching and Medical Research Center, Nuclear Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey. aysunsukan@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Aysun
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sükan
authors.forename: Serdar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kabataş
authors.forename: Tufan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cansever
authors.forename: Cem
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Yilmaz
authors.forename: Ebru
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Demiralay
authors.forename: Nur
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Altinörs
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001706:Biopsy; D017115:Catheter Ablation; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010017:Osteoma, Osteoid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate