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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: TOsseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Osseous hemangioma of the seventh cervical vertebra with osteoid formation mimicking metastasis a case report Stefan Lakemeier 1 Christina Carolin Westhoff2 Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann1 and Markus Dietmar Schofer1 Address Department of Orthopaedics University Hospital Giessen and Marburg Location Marburg Baldingerstrasse 35033 Marburg Germany and institute of Pathology University Hospital Giessen and Marburg Location Marburg Baldingerstrasse 35033 Marburg Germany Email Stefan Lakemeier - lakemeie@ Christina CarolinWesthoff-westhoff@ Susanne Fuchs-Winkelmann - fuchss@ Markus Dietmar Schofer - schofer@ Corresponding author Published 2 November 2009 Received 8 August 2008 _ n nno . n I lo mri Accepted 2 November 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 92 doi 1752-1947-3-92 This article is available from http content 3 1 92 2009 Lakemeier et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction We report the case of an osseous hemangioma located in the seventh cervical vertebra with reactive osteoid formation and non-typical findings in the radiological and the histopathological examination mimicking metastasis of a malignant tumor. To our knowledge this is the first description of such a case in the literature. Case presentation A 44-year-old otherwise healthy Caucasian German woman presented with a discrete sensorimotor loss of both upper limbs. Radiologically an osteolysis in the seventh cervical vertebra suggestive of metastasis of a malignant neoplasm was diagnosed. After performing corporectomy and cage implantation of .