MULTILOBULAR CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION - REPORT OF 2 CASES

Authors
MISHIMA K SASAKI T OJIMA T MUKASA A KIRINO T
Citation
K. Mishima et al., MULTILOBULAR CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION - REPORT OF 2 CASES, Acta neurochirurgica, 140(1), 1998, pp. 20-25
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Clinical Neurology
Journal title
Acta neurochirurgica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00016268
Volume
140
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
20 - 25
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-6268(1998)140:1<20:MCM-RO>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
The authors report two cases of cavernous malformation characterized b y a multilobular appearance on magnetic resonance images. At surgery, the malformations consisted of several nests of angiomatous components that were separated by intervening brain tissue and connected with ea ch other by tiny vessels. This basic configuration seems to explain th e unexpected postoperative recurrence of cavernous malformations and/o r rebleeding from the residual lesions.