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Cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma with MRI-proven haemorrhages

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Two contrasting cases of cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma in young female patients are reported. One patient had a 3-year course of step-wise progressive tetraparesis; at each of the five events intramedullary bleeding from a cryptic vascular malformation at C6–7 level was diagnosed by MRI. The other patient presented with one episode which led to MRI diagnosis of a vascular malformation at the C2 level. Both patients eventually underwent complete surgical excision of the angioma with subsequent steady improvement of the neurological deficit.

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Mehdorn, H.M., Stolke, D. Cervical intramedullary cavernous angioma with MRI-proven haemorrhages. J Neurol 238, 420–426 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00314647

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