Intra Medullary Capillary Heamangioma

Intramedullary capillary heamangioma is a rare tumour, Capillary heamangionas are benign vascular lesion commonly encountered in the cutaneous tissue. They are rare in the nervous system. Capillary heamangiomas have been well documented as occuring in the dura and spinal nerve roots (1, 2). Only eight cases are known to have been described as occuring in the spinal cord (3).These lesions are histologically characterized by a lobular architecture. In early lesions lobules are highly cellular and composed of mitotically active plump endothelial cells(4). The lobules are surrounded by a pseudocapsule and consist of small vessels lined by single endothelical layer.The clinico-pathological features revealing extramedullary heamatopoiesis and syringomyelia is highlighted.The objective of this paper is to review the capillary heamangioma and its differential diagnosis and add to the few numbers that have been published