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what is a hemangioma involving a mid thoracic vertebral body? and small ventral defects at several levels, felt to represent minimal bulging disks mean/ thank you.

 

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May 6 4:07 PM (21 minutes and 12 seconds later)
         
Hello Vicky,

Did you have any MRI of spine?

At how many levels defects were found?

Do you have any symptom ?

Do you have any other disease?

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May 6 4:14 PM (6 minutes and 36 seconds later)
         
yes mri was done, and the questions i ask are from the mri. it said at several levels.no other disease... it also said the small ventral defects with covering osteophytes are consistent with chronic injury.
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May 6 4:14 PM (36 seconds later)
         
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There are two types of hemangiomas you can be talking about, and I assume you are talking about a hemangioma of the bone, in particular the thoracic vertebral body. (The other hemangioma is a cavernous hemangioma, which could be found in the thoracic spinal CORD).

You probably had a MRI or CT myelogram performed for other reasons, or perhaps back pain, and this was an incidental finding.

Many people have hemanigomas found in the bones of the spine following a MRI, and they are the most common non-cancerous tumor of the spine, which is just basically blood vessels in the bone.

They typically will not cause any problems unless they fracture - symptoms arise from these hemangiomas in 1-2% of people (In other words 98% of people won't have a problem from this).

The "ventral defects" is just x-ray doctor speak for minimal bulging discs, again, relatively normal finding and unlikely to be symptomatic.

Edited by Dr. Mark on May 6 2008 at 4:15 PM

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