Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Large Intracerebral Cavernoma


This is a 22 year old male, with T1/T2 hyperintense mass with signal suppression on T2 *GRE consiting of blood products in varying stages.  There was calcification on plain CT head. Pathological diagnosis was cavernoma. Cavernous malformations are benign vascular lesions of the central nervous system that lack intervening normal brain parenchyma. Giant cases are rare.


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