Vertebral hemangioma coincident with metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Beata Wierzycka; Aleksandra Krzan; Bartłomiej Stasiów; Grazyna Bierzyńska-Macyszyn; Anna Kopycka; Krzysztof Zapałowicz
- Source
- Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. 24:506-509
- Subject
- Diagnostic Imaging
medicine.medical_specialty
Colorectal cancer
Adenocarcinoma
Asymptomatic
Metastasis
Hemangioma
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Lumbar
medicine
Humans
Spinal canal
Vertebroplasty
Spinal Neoplasms
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Surgery
Vertebra
medicine.anatomical_structure
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Colonic Neoplasms
Female
sense organs
Radiology
medicine.symptom
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 1547-5654
The authors report on colon cancer metastasis to the L-3 vertebra, which had been previously found to be involved by an asymptomatic hemangioma. A 61-year-old female patient was admitted after onset of lumbar axial pain and weakness of the right quadriceps muscle. Her medical history included colon cancer that had been diagnosed 3 years earlier and was treated via a right hemicolectomy followed by chemotherapy. Presurgical imaging revealed an asymptomatic hemangioma in the L-3 vertebral body. Computed tomography and MRI of the spine were performed after admission and revealed a hemangioma in the L-3 vertebral body as well as a soft-tissue mass protruding from the L-3 vertebral body to the spinal canal. Treatment consisted of vertebroplasty of the hemangioma, left L-3 hemilaminectomy, and removal of the pathological mass from the spinal canal and the L-3 vertebral body. Histopathological examination revealed the presence of colon cancer metastasis and a hemangioma in the same vertebra.