title: Spinal angiolipoma: experience of twelve patients and literature.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To summarize our experience in treating patients with spinal angiolipomas.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a retrospective review of the case records of patients with spinal angiolipoma who underwent surgery between March 1992 and March 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 12 patients seen during the study period, 10 patients had total removal of the lesion and 2 patients had sub-total removal. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the outcomes were good in patients who underwent total excision of the lesion. No patient received adjuvant radiation even in the patients with sub-total excision.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In patients with spinal angiolipoma, total excision should be achieved and is associated with good outcomes.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Zhijun
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Guihuai
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yulun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery,Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University; Department of Neurosurgery,China National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Pinan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018206:Angiolipoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome