Cobb's syndrome and its treatment with embolization. Case report

J Neurosurg. 1990 Mar;72(3):497-9. doi: 10.3171/jns.1990.72.3.0497.

Abstract

A case of Cobb's syndrome, which is characterized by spinal and vertebral angiomas and a skin nevus at the same metameric level, is reported. The spinal angiomas were treated with liquid embolization using ethylene vinyl alcohol.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Angiomatosis / diagnosis
  • Angiomatosis / therapy*
  • Embolization, Therapeutic*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Meningeal Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Polyvinyls / therapeutic use
  • Skin Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Skin Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Spinal Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Syndrome
  • Thorax

Substances

  • Polyvinyls
  • ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer