[Spinal cord angioma]

A 35 years old male began to show, 16 years after a transient paraplegia, the neurological signs of a multifocal damage of the spinal cord, which progressed slowly and irregularly over a period of several months. The diagnosis of spinal cord angioma was suspected on the basis of an increase of cerebrospinal fluid white cells and proteins, and of opaque myelography, and proved by spinal angiography. After surgical excision a transient flaccid paraplegia regressed in two weeks, substituted by a mild spastic paraparesis.