caa a22 4500 445832991 CHVBK 20180317145321.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00586-011-1898-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00586-011-1898-z Symptomatic spinal cavernous malformations: indication for microsurgical treatment and outcome [Elektronische Daten] [Homajoun Maslehaty, Harald Barth, Athanassios Petridis, Alexandros Doukas, Hubertus Mehdorn] Purpose: We demonstrate clinical features, therapy and outcome of 14 patients with symptomatic spinal cavernous malformations (CM). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent microsurgical treatment of symptomatic spinal CM during the last decade in our department through an analysis of our database. Results: We analyzed the data of 14 patients (11 females, 3 males) with symptomatic spinal CM in a range of 16-77years (mean age 47.8years). Seven patients (50%) experienced significant improvement of their symptoms rapidly after surgery. The remaining seven patients presented new non pre-existing complaints, which improved gradually with a favourable outcome at the last follow-up examination in six cases. Conclusion: Microsurgical treatment under perioperative electrophysiological monitoring is justified to prevent severe neurofunctional deterioration in symptomatic spinal CM. Although some of the patients deteriorate after surgery, the symptoms are rapidly declining with a favourable outcome in majority of them. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Cavernous malformation nationallicence Cavernous malformation spinal cord nationallicence Intramedullary cavernoma nationallicence Spinal vascular malformation nationallicence Maslehaty Homajoun Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut Barth Harald Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut Petridis Athanassios Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut Doukas Alexandros Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut Mehdorn Hubertus Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut European Spine Journal Springer-Verlag 20/10(2011-10-01), 1765-1770 0940-6719 20:10<1765 2011 20 586 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-011-1898-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00586-011-1898-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Maslehaty Homajoun Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Barth Harald Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Petridis Athanassios Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Doukas Alexandros Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mehdorn Hubertus Department of Neurosurgery, Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Arnold-Heller-Straße 3, 24105, Kiel, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Spine Journal Springer-Verlag 20/10(2011-10-01), 1765-1770 0940-6719 20:10<1765 2011 20 586 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer