Thoracic spinal angiomyolipoma: case report and literature review

Neurosurgery. 1985 Mar;16(3):406-11. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198503000-00023.

Abstract

A rare case of thoracic spinal angiomyolipoma presenting with evidence of vertebral body infiltration and concurrent epidural spinal cord compression is described. Clinicopathological correlates, aspects of radiological diagnosis, considerations for surgical management, and histopathological features denoting possible unique attributes of biological behavior for this entity are discussed in conjunction with a review of the previous literature on angiolipomas in general.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Epidural Space
  • Hemangioma / diagnostic imaging
  • Hemangioma / pathology*
  • Hemangioma / surgery
  • Humans
  • Lipoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Lipoma / pathology*
  • Lipoma / surgery
  • Male
  • Spinal Cord Compression / etiology
  • Spinal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Spinal Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Spinal Neoplasms / surgery
  • Thoracic Vertebrae* / diagnostic imaging
  • Thoracic Vertebrae* / pathology
  • Thoracic Vertebrae* / surgery
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed