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¹Ankara Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Department of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey
²Ankara Ataturk Education and Research Hospital, Department of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Turkey DOI : 0.5137/1019-5149.JTN.3278-10.2 Vertebral body hemangiomas are benign lesions and account for 4% of all spinal tumors. The most common histological type is cavernous hemangioma. These tumors generally locate in the vertebral body as a solitary lesion. Multiple lesions are seen in approximately 25-30% of vertebral hemangiomas. Mostly they are asymptomatic and incidentally found with radiological studies. Symptomatic vertebral hemangiomas are rare and represent <1% of all hemangiomas; however, if untreated, they may cause local or radicular pain and neurological deficits ranging from myeloradiculopathy to paralysis. In this case we aim to present preoperative and postoperative Computed Tomography findings of a cavernous hemangioma that caused sudden motor deficit and was localised to the thoracic vertebra corpus and posterior elements. Keywords : Spine, Cord compression, Vertebral hemangioma, Computed tomography