Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas
Cavernous angiomas represent 5–12% of all spinal vascular lesions and 1% of all intramedullary lesions in pediatric patients. Intramedullary spinal cavernomas are relatively rare with only 24 cases reported till date to the best of our knowledge. A 15 -year-old boy presented to the clinic with acute...
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author | Kodeeswaran, M. Udesh, Reshmi Ramya, L. Jothi Kumar, S. |
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description | Cavernous angiomas represent 5–12% of all spinal vascular lesions and 1% of all intramedullary lesions in pediatric patients. Intramedullary spinal cavernomas are relatively rare with only 24 cases reported till date to the best of our knowledge. A 15 -year-old boy presented to the clinic with acute onset motor weakness in all four limbs. He was diagnosed with multiple cerebral cavernomas and an acutely bleeding spinal cavernoma. Complete surgical excision of the spinal cavernoma was done. Postoperatively the patient's weakness gradually improved to a power of 4/5 in all his limbs over a period of 10 days. Only 24 cases of pediatric spinal cavernomas have been reported in the current literature. Current consensus on management of these rare lesions is based on previously published case reports/series and surgery appears to be the only definitive treatment. Further studies regarding any non-surgical expectant management appears warranted. |
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spelling | pubmed-50311352016-09-22 Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas Kodeeswaran, M. Udesh, Reshmi Ramya, L. Jothi Kumar, S. J Surg Case Rep Case Report Cavernous angiomas represent 5–12% of all spinal vascular lesions and 1% of all intramedullary lesions in pediatric patients. Intramedullary spinal cavernomas are relatively rare with only 24 cases reported till date to the best of our knowledge. A 15 -year-old boy presented to the clinic with acute onset motor weakness in all four limbs. He was diagnosed with multiple cerebral cavernomas and an acutely bleeding spinal cavernoma. Complete surgical excision of the spinal cavernoma was done. Postoperatively the patient's weakness gradually improved to a power of 4/5 in all his limbs over a period of 10 days. Only 24 cases of pediatric spinal cavernomas have been reported in the current literature. Current consensus on management of these rare lesions is based on previously published case reports/series and surgery appears to be the only definitive treatment. Further studies regarding any non-surgical expectant management appears warranted. Oxford University Press 2016-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5031135/ /pubmed/27651109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw157 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2016. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Case Report Kodeeswaran, M. Udesh, Reshmi Ramya, L. Jothi Kumar, S. Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
title | Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
title_full | Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
title_fullStr | Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
title_full_unstemmed | Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
title_short | Multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
title_sort | multiple cerebrospinal cavernous angiomas |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5031135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27651109 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjw157 |
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