Unilateral hemilaminectomy combined with microsurgical technique provides sufficient space for the removal of diverse spinal cord tumors. The basic profiles of the spinal cord tumors which can be removed through the unilateral hemilaminectomy demonstrate its role for the surgery of the benign spinal cord tumors in various sizes.

Vertebra plana is a radiologic diagnosis that indicates complete compression of the vertebral body (1). Although eosinophilic granuloma of the bone is the most frequent benign disease responsible for vertebra plana (2), it can be caused by several pathological conditions. Vertebral plana caused by a giant cell tumor (GCT) has been mentioned in only a few case reports in the English medical literature, and those case reports were without a detailed description (1). To the best of our knowledge, the computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging features of GCT presenting as vertebra plana have seldom been reported in the radiological literature. We report here on the case of