Multiple cerebral cavernous angiomas. Case report.
This 26-year-old woman was admitted to Neurosurgery Department in 1972 for the first time due to increased intracranial pressure and since observed and treated by ventriculo-peritoneal shunt during next twenty years. First symptoms such as visual disturbances, hemiparesis and hemianesthesia appeared 8 years earlier followed 4 years later by epileptic fits. Ventriculography revealed hydrocephalus and the tumor in the region of the third ventricle. CT scan visualized multiple hyperdense foci. Ventriculo-peritoneal shunt provided good improvement. During the next twenty years condition of the patient gradually worsened. Diagnosis of multiple cavernous angiomas was established only at autopsy.
Kroh
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Neurosurgery Department, School of Medicine, Warszawa.
Andrychowski
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D000328:Adult; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000473:pathology; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000473:pathology; D002551:Cerebral Ventricle Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D014695:Cerebral Ventriculography; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007029:Hypothalamic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011149:Pons / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed