Abstract
Hemangiomas are often seen in the spinal column, usually in the vertebral body and asymptomatic. Hemangiomas rarely extend out of vertebral body and to compress the spinal cord.
We report a case of an 82-year-old woman who presented with progressive numbness of the lower extremities and unsteady gait. Magnetic resonance imaging showed a tumor lesion at the third and the fourth levels of the thoracic spine, and the spinal cord was compressed by the tumor from the dorsal aspect of the lamina. A laminectomy of the third and the fourth thoracic vertebrae was performed in 2001. Histopathology of the lesion revealed a typical cavernous hemangioma. After one month, the patient showed normal voluntary power in the extremities.
