title: Hemangioma of rib: a different perspective.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Hemangiomas are one of the common primary benign tumors of the intraosseous and soft tissue compartments in humans. Vertebral hemangiomas being the most common of all are seen in daily radiological practice. Hemangioma of the rib is rarely seen.
  
  
  METHODS
  We reported on a case of a rib lesion which had a classic imaging pattern of hemangioma. We highlighted the use of pre-operative embolization of such a vascular rib lesion before surgically removing the lesion by thoracotomy to reduce the risk of bleeding.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We also emphasized overt complications of overzealous needling of such a vascular lesion for histopathological diagnosis as in our case.
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Hemant
authors: H
authors: Deshmukh
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Kranti K
authors: KK
authors: Rathod
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Priya
authors: P
authors: Hira
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Shilpa
authors: S
authors: Sankhe
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Nilesh
authors: N
authors: Pandit
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Kartik
authors: K
authors: Mittal
authors: Department of Radiology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai, India.
authors: Amit K
authors: AK
authors: Dey
keywords: Embolization, Therapeutic; Hemangioma; Technology, Radiologic