title: Vertebral hemangioma coincident with metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma.
abstract: The authors report on colon cancer metastasis to the L-3 vertebra, which had been previously found to be involved by an asymptomatic hemangioma. A 61-year-old female patient was admitted after onset of lumbar axial pain and weakness of the right quadriceps muscle. Her medical history included colon cancer that had been diagnosed 3 years earlier and was treated via a right hemicolectomy followed by chemotherapy. Presurgical imaging revealed an asymptomatic hemangioma in the L-3 vertebral body. Computed tomography and MRI of the spine were performed after admission and revealed a hemangioma in the L-3 vertebral body as well as a soft-tissue mass protruding from the L-3 vertebral body to the spinal canal. Treatment consisted of vertebroplasty of the hemangioma, left L-3 hemilaminectomy, and removal of the pathological mass from the spinal canal and the L-3 vertebral body. Histopathological examination revealed the presence of colon cancer metastasis and a hemangioma in the same vertebra.
authors.affiliation: Departments of 1 Neurosurgery and.
authors.forename: Krzysztof
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zapałowicz
authors.affiliation: Histopathological Diagnostic Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
authors.forename: Grażyna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bierzyńska-Macyszyn
authors.affiliation: The Unit of Diagnostic Imaging, Independent Public Clinical Hospital No. 7 of the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, Professor Leszek Giec Upper Silesian Medical Centre; and.
authors.forename: Bartłomiej
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Stasiów
authors.affiliation: Neurology and.
authors.forename: Aleksandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Krzan
authors.affiliation: Departments of 1 Neurosurgery and.
authors.forename: Beata
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Wierzycka
authors.affiliation: Departments of 1 Neurosurgery and.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kopycka
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery*; D054854:Vertebroplasty
keywords: VB = vertebral body; VH = vertebral hemangioma; colon cancer; lumbar spine; metastasis; oncology; surgical treatment; vertebral hemangioma