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T1-MRI scan with contrast enhancement showing a contrast-enhancing lesion reaching from C2 to C3 with extensive vascularization
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Fig2
A contrast enhanced MRI revealed an intramedullary lesion at the cervical level reaching from C2-C3 raising the suspicion of a spinal hemangioblastoma (Fig. 2).
Preoperative angiography showing successful partly embolization (left image before embolization, right image after embolization of the feeding vessel)
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Fig3
A preoperative DSA showed an increased vascularization of the lesion, and the patient underwent preoperative embolization of the tumor feeding segmental artery (Fig. 3).
T1-MRI scan with contrast enhancement (upper image) and T2-MRI scan (lower image) confirming complete resection of the lesion
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Fig4
Surgical complete tumor resection was performed via laminoplasties C2-3 under IONM (Fig. 4).