Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia

BACKGROUND: Intramedullary spinal hemangioblastomas are known to be accompanied by syringomyelia. CASE DESCRIPTION: Here, we report a patient who presented with symptoms of a Chiari malformation but was found to have a D4 intramedullary hemangioblastoma with a holocord syrinx. CONCLUSIONS: Although...

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Autores principales: Dutta, Gautam, Singh, Daljit, Singh, Hukum, Srivastava, Arvind K., Jagetia, Anita, Agrawal, Atul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
Materias:
Spine: Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29721352
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_47_18
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author Dutta, Gautam
Singh, Daljit
Singh, Hukum
Srivastava, Arvind K.
Jagetia, Anita
Agrawal, Atul
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description BACKGROUND: Intramedullary spinal hemangioblastomas are known to be accompanied by syringomyelia. CASE DESCRIPTION: Here, we report a patient who presented with symptoms of a Chiari malformation but was found to have a D4 intramedullary hemangioblastoma with a holocord syrinx. CONCLUSIONS: Although rare, neurosurgeons should keep in mind the possibility of an intramedullary hemangioblastoma in patients presenting with symptoms of a Chiari malformation.
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spelling pubmed-59090862018-05-02 Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia Dutta, Gautam Singh, Daljit Singh, Hukum Srivastava, Arvind K. Jagetia, Anita Agrawal, Atul Surg Neurol Int Spine: Case Report BACKGROUND: Intramedullary spinal hemangioblastomas are known to be accompanied by syringomyelia. CASE DESCRIPTION: Here, we report a patient who presented with symptoms of a Chiari malformation but was found to have a D4 intramedullary hemangioblastoma with a holocord syrinx. CONCLUSIONS: Although rare, neurosurgeons should keep in mind the possibility of an intramedullary hemangioblastoma in patients presenting with symptoms of a Chiari malformation. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5909086/ /pubmed/29721352 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_47_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Surgical Neurology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Singh, Hukum
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Jagetia, Anita
Agrawal, Atul
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title Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia
title_full Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia
title_fullStr Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia
title_full_unstemmed Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia
title_short Dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia
title_sort dorsal hemangioblastoma manifesting as holocord syringomyelia
topic Spine: Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5909086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29721352
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_47_18
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