A case report of Cobb syndrome / 中华神经科杂志

ABSTRACT

Cobb syndrome, or cutaneomeningospinal angiomatosis, is a clinically rare manifestation of angiomatosis or arteriovenous malformations of the skin, spine, spinal cord, and viscera in the same spinal segment. A 48 years old female patient with Cobb syndrome treated ecently is reported as follow. The patient was admitted to hospital due to lower limbs weakness for three days. Left lumbar and abdominal pain occurred before onset without obvious causes, and then lower limbs weakness occurred. In this case, clinical manifestations were acute onset and development rapidly. Imaging showsed myeleterosis from C 1 to T 11, consistent with vertebral segments of hemangiomas in the left parotid gland, the left axillary, the left subclavian, the right femoribus internus, and the right lobe of the liver, etc. Her symptoms and imaging manifestations all meet the diagnostic criteria of Cobb syndrome. Cobb syndrome is easy to be missed diagnosis and misdiagnozed clinically with poor prognosis. This paper discussed and analyzed the rare case in combination with relevant literature, in order to improve clinicians′ understanding of Cobb syndrome, so as to achieve early diagnosis and treatment, thus to reduce permanent neurological complications.