Conservative Management of Cerebral Venous Angioma - A Difficult Alternative For Patient And Physician
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 3
Abstract
Cerebral venous angioma, also referred to as a developmental venous anomaly is a congenital anomaly of the medullary vein, the vessel that drains into the transparenchymal venous stem. We describe a 7 year old male child presenting with left sided focal seizures in status followed by left hemiplegia. On examination child had altered sensorium and left hemiplegia. His baseline blood, metabolic and CSF studies were normal. MRI brain and MR angiography detected venous angioma involving the deep white matter of Right frontoparietal lobe. Currently child is being managed conservatively on medical therapy as mentioned in the literature. This report describes the clinical and radiologic findings for large venous angioma that caused seizures in a child..
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Vaishali R Ghane
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