Hemangioma in vertebral body X-ray

Benign, slow-growing tumor composed of vascular channels. Usually asymptomatic and identified in middle-aged patients. The coarse vertical trabecular pattern may extend into the pedicles and laminae. Soft-tissue and intraspinal extension of the tumor or secondary hemorrhage can produce a paraspinal mass.

It is one of these lytic lesions that appeares in X-ray of vertebral body and shows demineralized and occasionally expanded vertebral body with characteristic multiple coarse linear striations running vertically.

 Hemangioma of a vertebral body. Multiple coarse, linear striations run vertically in the demineralized vertebral body.