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Spinal angiomas as a cause of non-traumatic paraplegia: case report

Spinal Cord volume 26, pages 425–430 (1988)Cite this article

Abstract

A case is presented of a 17-year-old boy who developed paraplegia after a sudden low back pain, like a ‘stab in the back’, with radicular radiation into the lower limbs. No trauma preceded the onset of symptoms.

The diagnosis was finally made by neuroradiological investigations (magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), myelography and CT-scan).

A review of the physiopathology of spinal angiomas, extra and/or intramedullary, by exclusion of vertebral (haem) angiomas, is made.

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  1. Department of Physical medicine and rehabilitation, Middelheimziekenhuis, Antwerp

    R Chappel & P Herregods

  2. Department of neurosurgery, Middelheimziekenhuis, Antwerp

    G Dua

  3. Department of Neuroradiology, Middelheimziekenhuis, Antwerp

    B Appel

  4. Department of Neurology, Vesaliusziekenhuis, Brasschaat, Belgium

    A M de Barsy,

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Chappel, R., de Barsy,, A., Dua, G. et al. Spinal angiomas as a cause of non-traumatic paraplegia: case report. Spinal Cord 26, 425–430 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1988.66

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Keywords

  • Spinal angioma
  • MRI
  • Myelography
  • CT-scan
  • Spinal angiography
  • Paraplegia

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