Fig. 1.
A 54-year-old woman. Invasion of hematoma and scar tissue into the spinal canal after laminectomy for expiration of spinal tumour. a Pre-operative MRI showed intradural spinal tumour at the level of the ninth thoracic spine. b Laminectomy from T8 to T10 and tumour extirpation was performed for neurolemoma. Post-operative MRI showed that spinal cord was comprised by hematoma. c Three months after the operation, MRI revealed that hematoma had almost disappeared from the spinal canal