title: Ischemic complication of a cerebral developmental venous anomaly: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: We report a case of a nonhemorrhagic infarct associated with a thrombosed developmental venous anomaly (DVA), with secondary gliosis and Wallerian degeneration. The initial MRI scan showed an acute ischemic infarct in the region of the DVA, seen as a region of restricted diffusion on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), with later development of encephalomalacia and Wallerian degeneration on follow-up MRI. No blood products were seen. We believe that thrombosis of the collector vein of a DVA with associated infarction is a rare but possible complication that should be considered within the proper clinical setting and can be easily and confidently diagnosed by means of DWI.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
authors.forename: Dima
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hammoud
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Beauchamp
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wityk
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yousem
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D004058:Diffusion; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology; D005911:Gliosis / Q000175:diagnosis; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement; D020766:Intracranial Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology