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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · J Neurol Surg Rep 2020; 81(03): e39-e41
DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1709714
Case Report
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Radiation-Induced Cervical Spinal Cord Cavernoma Following Head and Neck Radiotherapy: Case Report

Hosam Al-Jehani 
1   Department of Surgery, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2   Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal Neurological Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3   Department of Neurosurgery, King Fahad University Hospital, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia
,
Ahmad Najjar
1   Department of Surgery, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
,
Abdulwahid Barnawi
1   Department of Surgery, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
,
Daniel Shedid
1   Department of Surgery, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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20 October 2018

20 May 2019

Publication Date:
19 July 2020 (online)

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Abstract

Cavernous angiomas are congenital vascular malformations that affect the central nervous system. Reports implicated radiation therapy as a triggering factor for the formation of cavernomas but not in relation with head and neck radiation therapy. Radiation-induced cavernomas (RIC) should be considered in the differential diagnosis of focal neurological symptoms in any patient who has received previous cranial-spinal or head and neck radiotherapy.

Keywords

arteriovenous malformation - head and neck cancer - radiation induced cavernoma - spinal cord cavernous angiomas
 

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