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Spinal-cord compression caused by vertebral haemangioma relieved by percutaneous catheter embolisation

Un cas de compression médullaire par hémangiome vertébral traité par embolisation par cathétérisme percutané

Rückenmark-Kompression bedingt durch ein Wirbel-Hämangiom und behandelt mit percutaner Katheter-Embolisierung

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A patient with paraplegia caused by spinal-cord compression due to extension into the spinal canal of angiomatous tissue from a haemangioma of the seventh dorsal vertebra, was treated, with good short-term objective results, by non-surgical (percutaneous catheter method) embolisation of the intercostal (osseous) arteries feeding the tumour. Embolisation of feeding arteries is proposed as an alternative to laminectomy in those cases of vertebral haemangioma in which decompression is indicated.

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Les auteurs rapportent le cas d'un malade paraplégique par compression médullaire due à l'extension dans le canal médullaire de tissus angiomateux provenant d'un hémangiome de la 7ème vertèbre dorsale. Ce malade fut traité, avec de bons résultats objectifs à court terme, par embolisation non chirurgicale (cathétérisme percutané) des artères inter-costales alimentant la tumeur. Les auteurs proposent l'embolisation des artères alimentant la tumeur comme méthode thérapeutique des hémangiomes vertébraux s'accompagnant de compression médullaire.

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Fallbeschreibung eines Patienten mit einer Paraplegie, die durch eine Kompression von angiomatösem Gewebe eines Wirbel-Hämangioms hervorgerufen wurde. Der Patient wurde mit einer percutanen Katheter-Embolisierung der zuführenden Gefäße behandelt.

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Hekster, R.E.M., Luyendijk, W. & Tan, T.I. Spinal-cord compression caused by vertebral haemangioma relieved by percutaneous catheter embolisation. Neuroradiology 3, 160–164 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00341502

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