Unilateral congenital cerebral venous dysgenesis.
I report a 30-year-old woman with congenital cerebral venous dysgenesis with absence of the internal cerebral and basal veins and most of the cortical veins. Unlike the more common bilateral picture, she had involvement only on the left side, which delayed presentation and gave relatively mild symptoms. The embryological mechanism and differential diagnosis of unilateral absence of the internal cerebral, basal and cortical veins are discussed.
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Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 2 nd Division, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and University, 199 Tung Hwa North Road, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
D000328:Adult; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000151:congenital; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D002538:Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging