Are thoracic spine hemangiomas serious?

Thoracic spine hemangioma belongs to benign tumors, which is not serious in terms of benign and malignant, and requires surgical treatment when the hemangioma leads to deformation of the vertebral body or secondary nerve injury. Thoracic hemangioma is a common benign tumor in the vertebral body, which is caused by the disorder of blood vessel growth in the vertebral body, and the common types are cavernous hemangioma, capillary hemangioma and mixed hemangioma. Thoracic vertebral hemangioma usually has no obvious clinical manifestations, and in some cases, it can manifest chest and back pain. As the tumor of thoracic vertebral hemangioma increases in size, it will destroy the diseased vertebral body, and in serious cases, it can lead to compression and deformation of vertebral body due to the decrease of bone strength, and even the deformed vertebral body compresses the nerve root or the spinal cord in the thoracic vertebral canal, which will lead to motor or sensory disorders of innervated area, as well as neurotic symptoms of the lower limbs, such as neuralgia, radiating pain, and so on. The treatment of thoracic vertebral body hemangioma with obvious clinical manifestations is surgical treatment, such as vertebral body bone cement injection treatment.