title: Infantile cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma manifesting as hematomyelia. Case report.
abstract: A 2-month-old infant presented with a cervical intramedullary spinal cord cavernous angioma manifesting as left hemiparesis caused by hematomyelia. Osteoplastic laminotomy of the cervical spine was carried out with subsequent microsurgical excision of the intramedullary spinal cord cavernous angioma. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed no residual tumor. At 25 months after the surgery, she presented no neurological deficit without recurrence and cervical deformity. This case of infantile intramedullary spinal cord cavernous angioma presenting with cervical hematomyelia shows osteoplastic laminotomy of the cervical spine might be helpful to prevent consequent cervical deformity in pediatric cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurological Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okaya, Japan. ya-miyo1@md.okayama-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miyoshi
authors.forename: Takao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yasuhara
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Omori
authors.forename: Isao
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Date
mesh_terms: D002574:Cervical Vertebrae; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007796:Laminectomy / Q000379:methods*; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D020758:Spinal Cord Vascular Diseases / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods