Abstract
Two contrasting cases of cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma in young female patients are reported. One patient had a 3-year course of step-wise progressive tetraparesis; at each of the five events intramedullary bleeding from a cryptic vascular malformation at C6-7 level was diagnosed by MRI. The other patient presented with one episode which led to MRI diagnosis of a vascular malformation at the C2 level. Both patients eventually underwent complete surgical excision of the angioma with subsequent steady improvement of the neurological deficit.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Female
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Hemangioma, Cavernous* / complications
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Hemangioma, Cavernous* / epidemiology
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Hemangioma, Cavernous* / pathology
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Hemangioma, Cavernous* / surgery
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Hematoma / etiology
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Hematoma / pathology
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Hemorrhage / etiology*
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Hemorrhage / pathology
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Humans
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Incidence
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
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Paralysis / etiology
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Recurrence
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Spinal Cord Compression / etiology
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Spinal Cord Compression / pathology
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Spinal Cord Diseases / etiology*
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Spinal Cord Diseases / pathology
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Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / complications
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Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / epidemiology
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Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / pathology
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Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / surgery
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Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / etiology