Sporadic osseous hemangioblastomas in the vertebra are extremely rare and they can be misdiagnosed as a vertebral hemangioma or metastasis in imaging studies. We report an intraosseous hemangioblastoma that arose from the 11th thoracic vertebra and was diagnosed initially as a metastasis in a patient with renal cell carcinoma. Diagnosis, surgical treatment and adjuvant radiosurgery of such case in reference to the literature are discussed.
Bone Neoplasms ; Carcinoma, Renal Cell ; Hemangioblastoma ; Hemangioma ; Humans ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Radiosurgery ; Spine