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World Neurosurg
October 2019
Department of Neurosurgery, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
Background: A 61-year-old man was admitted complaining of myelopathy and back pain for 3 months.
Case Description: A 15-mm hemangioma with calcification was noted on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography. Intraoperatively, the mass was hard with ill-defined demarcation.
South Asian J Cancer
October 2013
Department of Pathology, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Br J Neurosurg
December 2003
Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
Haemangioma calcificans is a relatively rare intracranial tumour, which is characterized by the presence of a calcified nodule in or near the brain. The patient is most often an adult of either sex, who develops seizures. The lesion can be large enough to produce raised intracranial pressure.
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April 1997
Department of Neurosurgery, Nara Medical University, Nara, Japan.
A 33-year-old female with intracerebral haemorrhage during pregnancy, associated with subarachnoid and intraventricular haemorrhages, is presented. Intracranial haemorrhages during pregnancy are known to frequently result from cerebral aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations. We believe that this is caused by haemangioma calcificans and is noteworthy in considering the indications for surgical treatment for intracranial calcified lesions suggestive of cavernous haemangioma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 27-year-old woman presented with hemotomyelia during pregnancy. Needle drainage of the spinal cord was followed by relief of symptoms. Symptoms recurred during a second pregnancy 4 years later and she presented with an avascular mass in the midcervical spinal cord.
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