CASE REPORTS   

Journal of Neurosurgical Sciences 2009 June;53(2):59-61

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language: English

Spontaneous cervical extradural hematoma in a cutaneo-meningospinal angiomatosis (Cobb syndrome): case report

Romeo F., Toscano S., Santangelo M., Fumai V., Maddalena G.

Department of Neurosurgery “A.Perrino” Hospital, Brindisi, Italy

Spontaneous spinal extradural hematoma is a rare clinical entity, commonly associated with coagulopathies, tumours or vascular malformations. They are often a neurosurgical emergency, therefore prompt diagnosis and early treatment are necessary. The Cobb syndrome is a neurocutaneous syndrome in which there are metameric vascular skin nevus and spinal arteriovenous malformation. The authors report the case of a 52-year-old woman with acute cervical myelopathy and a cervical cutaneous hemangioma on clinical examination. It is stressed the importance of clinical suspicion of cutaneo-meningospinal angiomatosis based on a spinal cord syndrome in the presence of a vascular skin nevus of the same metameric level.