title: An aggressive vertebral hemangioma in pregnancy: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pregnancy-related compressive myelopathy secondary to vertebral hemangioma is a rare occurrence and its treatment antepartum is rare.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 19-year-old North African woman in her 38th week of pregnancy presented with paraplegia that progressed within 2 days after a rapidly progressive weakness of her lower limbs. Magnetic resonance imaging studies showed compression of her spinal cord in front of the fourth thoracic vertebra for suspected tuberculous spondylitis. A Caesarean section was done followed by corpectomy with a bone graft because we intraoperatively discovered a vertebral hemangioma. Pathology showed an aggressive hemangioma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  At any term of pregnancy, extensive neurological involvement which is rapidly progressive due to compression should be considered for immediate decompression.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gynecology Obstetric II, Teaching Hospital Hassan II, Fez, Morocco. sliwaf-80@hotmail.fr.
authors.forename: Ouafae
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Slimani
authors.forename: Sofia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jayi
authors.forename: Fatimazahra
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fdili Alaoui
authors.forename: Hakima
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bouguern
authors.forename: Hekmat
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chaara
authors.forename: Ghizlane
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fikri
authors.forename: Siham
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alaoui Rachidi
authors.forename: Nadia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sqalli Houssaini
authors.forename: Mariam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Himmich
authors.forename: Moulay
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abdelilah Melhouf
mesh_terms: D002585:Cesarean Section; D019299:Decompression, Surgical; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D013117:Spinal Cord Compression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D055815:Young Adult