Bleeding from a cavernous angioma mimicking rupture of a middle cerebral artery aneurysm.
Cavernous angiomas and aneurysms may both present with acute cerebral haemorrhage. We present a case in which the coexistence of an unruptured aneurysm obscured the diagnosis of cerebral haemorrhage from a cavernous angioma. Although this association was presumably coincidental, this case demonstrates that obvious pathology (an angiographically proven aneurysm at the site of haemorrhage) may reduce awareness of other, possibly more common, causes of cerebral haemorrhage.
Krings
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Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital of the University of Technology, Aachen, Germany. tkrings@izkf.rwth-aachen.de
Mayfrank
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Thron
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D000328:Adult; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006392:Hemangioma, Cavernous / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D020768:Middle Cerebral Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed