Intracranial dural venous anomalies in familial cervical cystic hygroma.
This report describes a 3-year-old male with a familial cervical cystic hygroma and intracranial dural venous abnormalities consisting of a falcine sinus between the superior sagittal and the straight sinus with a rudimentary posterior part of the superior sagittal sinus; a prominent occipital sinus with narrowed transverse sinuses; and no intraparenchymal vascular abnormality. We hypothesize that a genetic factor that resulted in familial cervical cystic hygromas may also have caused the intracranial dural venous anomalies.
Tada
Hiroko
H
Department of Pediatrics, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
Takanashi
Jun-ichi
J
Barkovich
A James
AJ
Kohno
Yoichi
Y
D002550:Cerebral Veins / Q000473:pathology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004388:Dura Mater / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D018191:Lymphangioma, Cystic / Q000473:pathology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D010690:Phlebography