Aggressive vertebral hemangioma as a rare cause of myelopathy.

J Back Musculoskelet Rehabil

Department of Interventional Radiology, Medical Faculty, Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey.

Published: January 2015

Vertebral hemangiomas (VHs) are common lesions in the adult population. They are usually asymptomatic and found incidentally on radiological imaging. New-onset back pain followed by subacute progression of thoracal myelopathy is the most common presentation in patients with neurological deficit. Differential diagnoses would include metastasis, multiple myeloma, lymphoma, Paget disease, osseous tumors such as Ewing sarcoma or hemangioblastoma and blood dyscrasia. We present a 41 year-old-male patient with thoracal VH causing myelopathy that completely improved after rehabilitation program with embolization and vertebroplasty procedures.

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