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A 30-year-old man with low back pain and gradual onset of cord compression was found to have a highly vascular extradural tumour in the lower thoracic region. Involvement of the right pedicle and a large part of the body of T9 suggested a vertebral haemangioma, but histology revealed haemangioblastoma. One case of an intraosseous haemangioblastoma has been described previously; we present the features of another case shown by MRI and discuss the differentiation between haemangioma and haemangioblastoma.
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Higgins, J.N.P., Lammie, G.A., Savy, L.E. et al. Intraosseous vertebral haemangioblastoma: MRI. Neuroradiology 38 (Suppl 1), S107–S110 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02278133
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