Radiologic Findings in Spinal Angiomas — Plain X-Rays, Myelography, and Spinal Phlebography

Abstract

Selective spinal angiography is now the procedure of choice for the diagnosis of intradural spinal angiomas. It has largely displaced the other radiologic investigations of the spinal canal. However, the diagnostic significance of straight films and tomography, myelography, and spinal phlebography has not been diminished. With vertebral, extradural, and some intradural angiomas these investigations give characteristic or suggestive findings, or they provide the indication for and supplement the findings of selective angiography. A further and more important reason for discussing them is the fact that such painstaking and specialized angiography is only possible in a few departments, and the classic investigative procedures are still undertaken in most cases. For this reason, they are indispensable in achieving an improvement in early diagnosis and, hence, early treatment.