Author(s)

Mohamed Aggouri^*, Ibrahima Berete, Meryem Himmich, Khalid Chakour, Chaoui Mohamed El Faiz Chaoui

Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Hassan II-Fez, Fez, Morocco.

A 50-year-old woman presented with mid-thoracic backache and progressive, spastic, paraparesis for 3 months. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed an epidural mass without bone lesion at the level of thoracic vertebrae (T7, T8 and T9). The mass had a paraspinal invasion. The spinal cord was compressed ventrally. The lesion was totally excised through an anterolateral transthoracic approach. Histopathological examination revealed a cavernous hemangioma. The patient improved dramatically after the excision of the lesion. We report this case for its rarity.

Cavernous Hemangioma, Epidural, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Myelopathy, Thoracic Spine

Aggouri, M. , Berete, I. , Himmich, M. , Chakour, K. and Mohamed El Faiz Chaoui, C. (2014) Extradural Hemangioma of Thoracic Spine. Open Journal of Modern Neurosurgery, 4, 190-192. doi: 10.4236/ojmn.2014.44033.