title: Microsurgical resection of cavernous haemangioma around the thoracic neuroforamen: a case report.
abstract: Treatment for haemangioma of the spinal cord often results in extensive bony resection that necessitates fusion and/or instrumentation. We report on a 75-year-old man who presented with neuropathic pain and muscle weakness of both lower limbs, secondary to an epidural haemangioma at T11-T12, extending laterally into the neuroforamen. The tumour was resected within the neuroforamen after a partial laminectomy and limited medial foraminotomy at T11-T12, without disruption of the osseous continuity of the pars interarticularis, avoiding spinal stabilisation surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Medicine, Fukui University Faculty of Medical Sciences, Eiheiji, Fukui, Japan. kuchida@u-fukui.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kenzo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: Takafumi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yayama
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakajima
authors.forename: Takayuki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hirai
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kobayashi
authors.forename: Kebing
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Alexander Rodriguez
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: Hisatoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baba
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae