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Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report
INTRODUCTION: We report the case of an osseous hemangioma located in the seventh cervical vertebra with reactive osteoid formation and non-typical findings in the radiological and the histopathological examination, mimicking metastasis of a malignant tumor. To our knowledge, this is the first descri...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-92 |
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author | Lakemeier, Stefan Westhoff, Christina Carolin Fuchs-Winkelmann, Susanne Schofer, Markus Dietmar |
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description | INTRODUCTION: We report the case of an osseous hemangioma located in the seventh cervical vertebra with reactive osteoid formation and non-typical findings in the radiological and the histopathological examination, mimicking metastasis of a malignant tumor. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old otherwise healthy Caucasian German woman presented with a discrete sensorimotor loss of both upper limbs. Radiologically, an osteolysis in the seventh cervical vertebra suggestive of metastasis of a malignant neoplasm was diagnosed. After performing corporectomy and cage implantation of C7 on the patient, the histopathological examination was complicated by marked osteoid formation obscuring the true diagnosis of an osseous hemangioma with reactive osteoid formation. CONCLUSION: Though hemangioma of the bone is a rare tumorous lesion in the cervical spine, it has to be taken into consideration as a reason for neck pain and sensomotoric loss of the upper limbs. Atypical radiological and histopathological presentations may hinder determination of the correct diagnosis. The treatment of such lesions must follow clinical guidelines but may be difficult to define in some cases when the correct diagnosis is not known at the time when therapy starts. |
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spelling | pubmed-27830912009-11-26 Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report Lakemeier, Stefan Westhoff, Christina Carolin Fuchs-Winkelmann, Susanne Schofer, Markus Dietmar J Med Case Reports Case report INTRODUCTION: We report the case of an osseous hemangioma located in the seventh cervical vertebra with reactive osteoid formation and non-typical findings in the radiological and the histopathological examination, mimicking metastasis of a malignant tumor. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case in the literature. CASE PRESENTATION: A 44-year-old otherwise healthy Caucasian German woman presented with a discrete sensorimotor loss of both upper limbs. Radiologically, an osteolysis in the seventh cervical vertebra suggestive of metastasis of a malignant neoplasm was diagnosed. After performing corporectomy and cage implantation of C7 on the patient, the histopathological examination was complicated by marked osteoid formation obscuring the true diagnosis of an osseous hemangioma with reactive osteoid formation. CONCLUSION: Though hemangioma of the bone is a rare tumorous lesion in the cervical spine, it has to be taken into consideration as a reason for neck pain and sensomotoric loss of the upper limbs. Atypical radiological and histopathological presentations may hinder determination of the correct diagnosis. The treatment of such lesions must follow clinical guidelines but may be difficult to define in some cases when the correct diagnosis is not known at the time when therapy starts. BioMed Central 2009-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2783091/ /pubmed/19946508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-92 Text en Copyright ©2009 Lakemeier et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case report Lakemeier, Stefan Westhoff, Christina Carolin Fuchs-Winkelmann, Susanne Schofer, Markus Dietmar Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
title | Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
title_full | Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
title_fullStr | Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
title_short | Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
title_sort | osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report |
topic | Case report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783091/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946508 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-3-92 |
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