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Intramedullary cavernous angiomas are rare vascular malformations; all published cases have been surgically approached posteriorly by standard laminectomy. We describe the case of a 63-year-old man with an intramedullary cavernous angioma, anteriorly located in the thoracic spinal cord. The angioma was operated on by transthoracic approach and totally removed.
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Santoro, A., Innocenzi, G., Bellotti, C. et al. Total removal of an intramedullary cavernous angioma by transthoracic approach. Ital J Neuro Sci 19, 176–179 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00831568
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