Cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma with MRI-proven haemorrhages

J Neurol. 1991 Dec;238(8):420-6. doi: 10.1007/BF00314647.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Female
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous* / complications
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous* / epidemiology
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous* / pathology
  • Hemangioma, Cavernous* / surgery
  • Hematoma / etiology
  • Hematoma / pathology
  • Hemorrhage / etiology*
  • Hemorrhage / pathology
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging*
  • Paralysis / etiology
  • Recurrence
  • Spinal Cord Compression / etiology
  • Spinal Cord Compression / pathology
  • Spinal Cord Diseases / etiology*
  • Spinal Cord Diseases / pathology
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / complications
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / epidemiology
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Spinal Cord Neoplasms* / surgery
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / etiology