Vascular malformations presenting as spinal cord neoplasms: case report. 1995

T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
Department of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

Three cases of adult patients with subacute courses of progressive caudal spinal cord disease are presented. Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and myelographic studies were interpreted preoperatively as representing a spinal cord neoplasm in each case. No evidence of enlarged or abnormal surface vessels was observed by neuroimaging or intraoperatively. Biopsy specimens from each spinal cord lesion showed the typical histopathological features of a spinal vascular malformation. We conclude that vascular malformations of the caudal spinal cord can appear as isolated intramedullary lesions with apparently normal surface vessels and that these lesions may be difficult to distinguish from spinal cord neoplasms.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008279 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques. Chemical Shift Imaging,MR Tomography,MRI Scans,MRI, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Image,Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional,Magnetization Transfer Contrast Imaging,NMR Imaging,NMR Tomography,Tomography, NMR,Tomography, Proton Spin,fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Imaging, Chemical Shift,Proton Spin Tomography,Spin Echo Imaging,Steady-State Free Precession MRI,Tomography, MR,Zeugmatography,Chemical Shift Imagings,Echo Imaging, Spin,Echo Imagings, Spin,Functional MRI,Functional MRIs,Image, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, NMR,Imaging, Spin Echo,Imagings, Chemical Shift,Imagings, Spin Echo,MRI Scan,MRIs, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Images,Resonance Image, Magnetic,Scan, MRI,Scans, MRI,Shift Imaging, Chemical,Shift Imagings, Chemical,Spin Echo Imagings,Steady State Free Precession MRI
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D009192 Myelography X-ray visualization of the spinal cord following injection of contrast medium into the spinal arachnoid space. Cisternography, Myelographic,Myelographic Cisternography,Cisternographies, Myelographic,Myelographic Cisternographies,Myelographies
D003937 Diagnosis, Differential Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures. Diagnoses, Differential,Differential Diagnoses,Differential Diagnosis
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D001165 Arteriovenous Malformations Abnormal formation of blood vessels that shunt arterial blood directly into veins without passing through the CAPILLARIES. They usually are crooked, dilated, and with thick vessel walls. A common type is the congenital arteriovenous fistula. The lack of blood flow and oxygen in the capillaries can lead to tissue damage in the affected areas. Arteriovenous Malformation,Malformation, Arteriovenous,Malformations, Arteriovenous
D001706 Biopsy Removal and pathologic examination of specimens from the living body. Biopsies

Related Publications

T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
February 1972, Journal of neurosurgery,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
October 1965, Journal of neurosurgery,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
August 2010, Journal of medical case reports,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
January 1978, Journal of neurosurgery,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
January 2009, Neurosurgical focus,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
January 1961, Sbornik vedeckych praci Lekarske fakulty Karlovy university v Hradci Kralove,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
July 2010, Neurosurgery clinics of North America,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
January 1959, Acta psychiatrica et neurologica Scandinavica,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
January 1964, Acta neurologica Scandinavica,
T J Montine, and J C O'Keane, and T A Eskin, and F Giangaspero, and L Gray, and A H Friedman, and P C Burger
September 1952, A.M.A. archives of neurology and psychiatry,
Copied contents to your clipboard!