Is foot pain symtomatic with Spinal Hemangioma

[isabell52]

Is foot pain symtomatic with Spinal Hemangioma?  I have leg pain and extreme foot pain.  A recent MRI shows I have multiply small hemangiomas on my spine in the lumbar region.   What treatments are available for this?  I am asking because the neurosurgeon failed to mention the hemangiomas to me.  I was unaware of these unitl I read my copy of the MRI report.   She mentioned sending me to a pain management doctor.  How effective will pain management be.
The pain in my foot and leg have grown mucn worse over the past year.

[PaulMD]

Hi there!

If the hemangiomas are impinging on nerves or other structures, then yes, they can explain your pain.  I suggest you discuss this matter thoroughly with your doctor and if hi dismisses the possibility of the hemangioma causing the pain, he should be able to assess you properly and provide an alternative explanation.  He can also give you medications to address the pain.  Today we have good effective drugs for pain that comes in many forms: pills, tablets, patches, etc.  You will have all the options once you've discussed these things with your doctor.

Regards and hope this helps...God bless.

[bhups1]

Hi, spinal hemangiomas can mimic the symptoms of lumbar spondylosis but incidence is quite low. Nerve compression due to tumor can lead to pain in leg. “Vertebral collapse complicating spinal hemangiomas can cause neural compression due to impingement from bone, hematoma, or extraosseous/epidural soft-tissue extension of the hemangioma itself. This may result in paraplegia (cord compression), radiculopathy (nerve-root impingement), or varying degrees of autonomic neurologic dysfunction.

Other more common causes of back pain, such as spondylosis or disk prolapse, should be excluded before ascribing the symptoms to hemangioma. When symptoms occur, they can be vague and nonspecific. Vertebral collapse and epidural and/or extraosseous extension can result in back pain. Neural compression can produce paralysis and/or paraplegia or bladder and bowel dysfunction, whereas radicular symptoms occur from nerve-root impingement”. Taken from http://www.emedicine.com/radio/topic322.htm

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