Surgical intervention for aggressive spine hemangiomas is an effective treatment with relatively low complication and recurrence rates.Īggressive hemangioma Enneking 3 Primary spine tumor Spine Surgical management Complications.Ĭopyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. There were three perioperative complications, deep venous thrombosis, renal insufficiency, one surgical site infection, and two postoperative complications, both revisions. This study was performed to assess behavior of atypical hemangiomas. Atypical vertebral hemangiomas, which are defined as showing low-signal intensity on T1-weighted images, have been described as lesions which are prone to aggressive behavior. Five complications were noted among three individuals. Objective: Most vertebral hemangiomas contain high signal intensity on T1-weighted MRI images. Three patients underwent post-operative radiation therapy. 40% of patients underwent a spinal fusion, with two of these patients receiving concurrent intra-operative vertebroplasty. The most common surgery was laminectomy at the site of the lesion (70%). Seven of the ten patients presented with back or leg pain. Eight out of ten patients had aggressive hemangioma of the thoracic spine. Patient demographics, medical history, operative procedure, adjunct treatment, early and late complications, and recurrence were analyzed using the Fischer exact test with significance set at p < 0.05 Ten patients met inclusion criteria for the study. The hospital pathology department database was used to identify patients with a diagnosis of aggressive hemangioma. Patients from 2005 to 2018 with an aggressive hemangioma of the cervical, thoracic, lumbar spine and sacrum treated surgically at a tertiary referral academic medical center were included in this study.

Our objective is to describe the surgical management and outcomes following surgical intervention for aggressive spine hemangiomas.

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